I don't tan (skin cancer)
sine (don't know any deaf people)
or cosine (got burned once by a "friend" on a loan).
"Bruce Hoult" wrote in message
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In article ,
"For Example John Smith" wrote:

Found a number of docs that refer to it as 22 degrees at 360mph
I've understood it to be about 4:1, but I don't do much math so I can't
convert the 22 degrees into a L.....

The number I saw was 18 degrees at approach speed, which is about 200
knots. That's 3:1. 22 degrees is 2.5:1.

To go from the angle to the glide ratio calculate 1/tan(angle).

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