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December 9th 03, 01:11 AM
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Arnold Pieper wrote:
Certain models of sailplanes have limitations in IAS with altitude for various reasons, (Flutter is not the only factor in determining VNE). When a sailplane does have this limitation, it will be expressed so in their manuals, and there will be a table of limiting IAS x Altitude. So what are these reasons? Can someone explain this a bit better? At 25,000 feet with a 90 knot headwind I'd like to know if pushing the nose down to redline is maybe a bad idea... and I'm not so sure I'd be confident doing it just because there are blank pages in the manual... 
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