Dick Williamson wrote:
> Whenever a discussion of optimum flight strategy in head winds and
> sink comes up, I go back to an excellent web site that graphically
> ties all of this to drag polars:
>
> http://home.att.net/~jdburch/polar.htm
>
> In a head wind, you do not want to fly at the max L/D, as illustrated
> nicely on this web site.
>
> Dick
>
> ================
Thanks Dick:
An excellent practical example for those of us who fly by intuition.
Now if there was something similar to explain the "so called downwind turn"!
--
John O'Sullivan
Nova Scotia
Wind and Wave Models
http://www.windandwavemodels.com/index.html
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