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On Jun 1, 2:01*pm, Andy wrote:
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 Hmm.... I wonder what my PDA program does in this case? Anyway, final glide is in table form for me (Soarpilot), which shows me glide slope numbers compared with different airspeeds. When there's a non-zero MC value for best glide it's apparent on that table. Example screen shown he http://www.soaringpilot.org/dokuwiki...l_glide_screen |
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