Hi Mike, Your statements may not be fully accurate, while it is true that the negative flaps do not offer much benefit until we reach quite high speeds, they are very detrimental if used too early and obviously the positive flaps make a significant change.
Quite a stretch from flaps hardly working. Cheers Jacques On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Mike Borgelt < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jacques, > > Thanks. Even that may not be a problem with our current thinking. > I have the DLR tested polar for the LS6. The flaps on an LS6 hardly work! > Hence the LS8. It only took LS 11 years to figure that out. Of course it > makes the LS easy to get to perform as there is next no penalty for flying > in the incorrect flap setting. > > Mike > > > > At 06:49 PM 4/20/2016, you wrote: > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_03CA_01D19B35.50B9A250" > Content-Language: en-us > > LS6 has L,+10,+5, 0 and for negative it is 0 to -5 but there is no > notches, you just leave the handle where you feel it should be. > > > *From:* Aus-soaring [ mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Mike Borgelt > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 20, 2016 4:55 PM > *To:* Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Aus-soaring] flap settings/Dynamis > > Thanks again everyone. > > I just need the number of performance (excluding landing flap) flap > positions not the actual degrees although the latter may help. > > Looks like 6 is the most common number. We're constructing a look up table > in eeprom and need to know how many numbers we need to hold. > > In a discussion this afternoon we may have found a way to do this this > without going to so much trouble. > > Mike > > > > At 03:56 PM 4/20/2016, you wrote: > > For the JS1C, in degrees of deflection. Best glide figures are published > for F4. F1 -3° F2 +0° F3 +5° F4 +13.5° F5 +16.6° L +20° Best > regards, Casey iPad transmission > On 20 Apr 2016, at 13:49, DMcD < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Interestingly, a lot of flap settings are > not actually positive or > negative in relationship to the aerofoil zero > line. It's just that the > min sink setting is usually called zero and the > others offset around > this, but in some cases negative settings can be 0º > in relation to the > foil itself. > > Anyway, DG call them degrees… Landing > is +15º and you then have 8º, > 5º, 0º and -5º -10º and -14º from > memory. > > D > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring > instrumentation since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > *Borgelt Instruments* - > *design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 * > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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