Barry Kruyssen wrote: > So you were 4300' AGL and were able to glide 6.5 miles and make a safe landing, is this correct? > At what height and distance out did you deploy the flaps.
That's what they told me, but that was to HSV, not to HUA where I actually landed. Bill Clapp told me his glide ratio was 2.5:1, so maybe that's the number you're fishing for. I didn't drop the flaps until I knew I could make the runway, maybe a quarter mile out and a few hundred feet up. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see homebuilt airplane at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
