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Old June 1st 10, 07:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy[_1_]
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Default Help calculating Speed To Fly for headwind and tailwind

On Jun 1, 9:52*am, John Cochrane
wrote:

That's a poor solution. A sticky knob that won't let you go below max
range would be better. If it shows Mc 0 but it's really set at (say)
Mc 2 because you're in a howling headwind, you need to know to cruise
at Mc 2 and not to take any 1.9 kt thermals. If the indicator shows Mc
0 you don't know that


Agree, but he seemed very sure that he had been told by his instrument
designer that MC zero would alway yield max range glide since the
computer knew the wind and would take account of it.

Maybe I should ask Dave directly since the SN10 was the instrument in
question.

Andy