Testing your glide. Are people doing this?

I suspect that the Pathfinder glides about like any fixed gear single and
would be surprised if its glide ratio differed much from a 152 or Cherokee
6.

Jets have glide ratios of up to 20:1. They have no props, dangling gear,
exposed rivits, large openings for cooling ect. The 600,000lb airliner
comes down fast but it goes forward fast too. Remember weight is potential
energy.

My MU-2 has a glide ratio of about 12:1.

Mike
MU-2


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:VNwnb.51170$HS4.234123@attbi_s01...
Big planes glide much better than small planes. An airliner has about
twice
the glide ration that your Pathfinder does.

Well, the Pathfinder glides like a rock. ;-)

But is that true of all airliners? I guess I would have thought that a
600,000 pound un-powered jetliner wouldn't glide very well.

Of course, the odds of losing all your engines are slim. But then who
would
ever believe that they would run the Boeing 307 out of gas?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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