no instrument flight

Mostly because it conjures up a nicer mental image than being, "Happier than
a pig in a waller".

Or I ain't had this much fun since the hogs ate my little brother.


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"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message
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Bullwinkle wrote:
They then make marks with grease pencil at the crucial airspeeds, and
report
being happy as clams with it.

There's something I've always wondered: why are clams happy in America?

And is this happy clam a shellfish or a cult member?


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There's something I've always wondered: why are clams happy in America?

And is this happy clam a shellfish or a cult member?

The expression is totally American and originated in about the 1830's
in New England. The original is often quoted as "Happy as clams at
high tide" or similar. That's when it's difficult to dig them up and
eat them!

I also experimented with extra canopy strings (I had to buy about 4,000
feet of red yarn to replace a lost string, so have plenty spare). They
were for ever getting trapped in the canopy and even when free weren't
that useful. Anyone need 3,900 feet of red yarn?

Mike

Sorry Bill not knocking your suggestion which is technically
sound but, ASI,Altimeter, 2 varios, turn and slip,
AH, compass, FLARM, transponder, radio, ELT, GPS, Palm
Top, Anti collision strobe, AoA meter, logger, data
link and batteries to power the above. I need a bigger
glider or perhaps dispense with the pilot :-)

At 21:42 09 July 2006, Bill Daniels wrote:

'Marc Ramsey' wrote in message
.com...

I suspect that surface ports on the top and bottom
of the nose will also
only work at zero slip/skid angle. Marc

Why would that be?

If both top and bottom ports are on the center line
they should be equally
influenced by slip/skid induced crossflow. You'd just
be measuring the
pressure difference between the ports not the absolute
pressure.

BTW, the guys at Black Forrest with pitch strings report
they give advanced
warning of lift so zooms can start a few seconds sooner.
An electronic AOA
indicator should do the same. Seems an AOA indicator
is both a safety
device and a performance boon.

Bill Daniels

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:40:42 +0100, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

Bullwinkle wrote:
They then make marks with grease pencil at the crucial airspeeds, and report
being happy as clams with it.

There's something I've always wondered: why are clams happy in America?

We have a whelk shortage.

rj

On 7/10/06 6:49 PM, in article ,
"Ralph Jones" wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:40:42 +0100, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

Bullwinkle wrote:
They then make marks with grease pencil at the crucial airspeeds, and report
being happy as clams with it.

There's something I've always wondered: why are clams happy in America?

We have a whelk shortage.

rj

To make things more understandable for non-USA RAS readers, I will rephrase
my analogy to make it more understandable for all:

"...and report being happy as Brits insulting the USA on July 4th."

There. Clearer now?
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And yes, this was just a joke about another non-soaring thread being kept
alive by morons in RAS, which was started by a (no doubt) atypical Brit.

Bullwinkle
Colonel, US Army (retired)

Marc Ramsey wrote:
Eric Greenwell wrote:
I don't think it's a good thing for student pilots, but how about the
licensed pilot flying cross-country? Would outlandings be safer if
pilots used the AGL information? I already do so to some extent, when
I use the "make waypoint here" feature over a good outlanding field,
then use that waypoint as my "target" for the glide computer.

I've been working with digital terrain elevation data since the mid-80s.
There are noticeable errors in some of the publicly available source
data. Fitting data for a usable area into the memory available in a PDA
requires a reduction in resolution. One also needs to consider the
possibility of significant GPS altitude errors. This data is fine for
drawing maps and getting a general idea of the height of the terrain,
but, in my opinion, depending on it for flying a pattern into an
unfamiliar field would be a mistake...

Marc is quite correct, and I should have mentioned I usually add 500
feet to my reserve to mitigate the problems he mentions; also, I
normally use it over relatively level terrain where the 2D resolution
wouldn't be important, and it's been accurate enough. I don't exactly
use it to fly a pattern, but just to get me back to the field high
enough to set up a pattern in the usual fashion - "that looks about right".

Now I'm curious about the accuracy of the terrain data used in my pda,
which runs SeeYou Mobile. I know SeeYou itself uses "relatively
accurrate" data now after the change (last year?) to data downloaded
from the Internet as needed, and SeeYou's terrain data is used to
produce the terrain data for the pda.

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