Larry Flesner wrote: > Assuming you only had a 4 mile distance, 4300 feet AGL, and no > wind I compute the following...
Yep, gotta be better than 2.5 to one. I had a 9 knot headwind all the way, was a crosswind once I turned "final", but I didn't even notice it while I was landing. I worked with glides some over the previous weekend, using the GPS's glide function, but I wanted to get the VSI reading correctly to keep me from having to time altitude changes. By the way, Wednesday's flight, the VSI was fairly accurate, but I'd disconnected it from the static system, so somehow it was still driving it crazy. You can rest assured that glide characteristics will be the first thing I work on when I continue testing in a couple of months. I don't know now exactly how far out I was now. Next time I drive to where I was, I'll hit the GOTO button on the GPS and see how far it is to HUA. Whatever the ratio is, it was just barely enough! I'm also going to send the EIS to GRT to have the altitude and airspeed functions added to it, so I'll have a complete record "next time"... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
