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Old March 12th 05, 03:00 AM
Eric Greenwell
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mborgelt wrote:

For optimum performance of electronic TE the pitot and static should be
on the same side of the TE(nose or tail) and the pitot should be twice
as far from the TE as the static is. (Former World champion Stig Oye
told me of this and a couple of minutes thought convinced me)


Mike, could you elaborate on this? It the vario is using electronic TE,
it's not using a TE probe, so I'm confused about the "pitot and static
should be on the same side of the TE(nose or tail)". What is TE
referring to in your statement?

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