Energy Height Or Total Specific Energy
What is energy height or total specific energy?
Energy height is a way to express an airplane's total energy (both altitude and speed) as a single number in feet. It represents the maximum altitude the airplane could reach if it converted all of its speed into climb.
Also known as: ES
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