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Joseph,
Maximum ENDURANCE
airspeed is a much lower airspeed than maximum glide DISTANCE airspeed. By choosing max endurance airspeed, you’ll
be down in the very low glide ratio range for our Hershey-bar wings and you won’t
have much in the way of landing spot choices.
I don’t
see much use in calculating that – unless you’re crossing the North Atlantic
and need to put out maximum Maydays before you go in the drink and have 10
minutes before hypothermia kills you.
Anywhere
else, you would be more concerned with having a longer gliding DISTANCE to
increase your choice of landing fields.
Having longer to think about it (which you would have to trade for a
MUCH reduced choice of landing spots) doesn’t seem wise to me.
Ed
Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph E. Robbins
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003
9:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] glide
ratio
Rather than
trying to figure out a glide ratio, has anybody out there calculated the number
of maximum flying minutes remaining at any given altitude once the
engine quit? For example, let's say the engine quit at 5000 feet and
you choose to descend at 70 mph. What about at 4500, 4000,
3500, 3000. How about descending at 65mph or some other set of
variables?
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