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On May 29, 9:22*am, John Cochrane
wrote: Many people make the mistake of thinking wind affects final glide. It does not (except for the above meteorological considerations). There does come a point, gliding in to the wind, that lowering your MacCready setting actually results in a worse glide. You'll see that -- you get low, turn down the Mc, and all of a sudden you're even lower! ouch! I was involved in an animated discussion about this just last weekend when a group of us was dining out after a fine day of soaring. I was assured that at least one popular glide computer does take wind into account for final glide and that a setting MC=0 would always give the best range glide solution for the known headwind or tailwind. In other words the glide computer is finding the MC setting that gives max range (more than zero for a headwind and less that zero for a tail wind) and displaying that as the zero MC setting. I maintained that I never had a glide computer that did that, but admitted it was possible that someone had implemented it that way. So designers, or users, of popular glider computers - Does your instrument give max range at MC=0 regardless of wind or do you have to adjust MC for the minimum vaue of required altitude? |
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