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It's a different mindset. With your self launcher, and my conventional
turbo, if you start the engine you drive home. With my FES if I need to climb I only climb as little as possible, then I'm back in the "Soaring" game to get as close to home as I can. I just have the option of setting my glide angle to something more favourable. And in the UK will almost certainly have the option of an Airfield on the way home if I need it If the engine dies then I'm still in the same situation all of us are in, so I don't fly over unlandable terrain with or without the FES running (I'll make an exception for the Solent) Flying in the UK 1200ft normally gives a pretty wide choice of fields KN At 21:37 22 September 2020, waremark wrote: 'I can climb quickly from 200m to 400m (500 - 1200ft) then have enough left for 75km in stillish air. Low power is more efficient so if you recognise the day is dying earlier you don=E2=80=99t need to invest the charge in climbing so range is much better. It will never match the range of a conventional turbo but will always get you away from a farmer=E2=80=99s field to an airfield near home.' Are you saying that you would cruise home level at 1,200 foot above the gro= und? Depending on the terrain you are flying over, how can that enable you = always to have somewhere to land if the motor dies? In my petrol self-launc= her, even over fairly flat land, I would typically climb at least to 3,000 = foot before leveling off and cruising home at 85 knots (if I am not feeling= impatient I generally climb as high as I need to glide home). |
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