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Old February 24th 14, 02:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_5_]
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Default A polar calculation question for you number crunchingenthusiasts out there

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:49:16 -0800, ES wrote:

Are there any other tools available that can take a set of sink rates
(hopefully more than 3) and produce some decent numbers?

Does your flight computer accept polars in the Winpilot format?

If so, are the numbers for an SZD-56-2 Diana-2 of any use, either
directly or for use as a starting point? If so the SZD-56-2 polar is
included on the LK8000 polars database.

Wishing the flight computers would just start with lookup tables,

Well, both XCsoar and LK8000 do just that and both load polars from
Winpilot format polar files, - but neither currently has a polar for the
SZD-56-1 Diana-1.


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