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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: More R/C Gliding........
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.151721.20627@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:17:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.220857.6043@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Chris Kaiser) writes:
- |In article <1992Jul22.233354.6431@rtsg.mot.com>, svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
- |
- |> 9. Find a "cruise speed" and a "thermal speed" for your particular airplane, and
- |> memorize the elevator trim positions for these. Cruise speed is usually your
- |> best glide ratio; that is, it's when you cover the most ground horizontally, for
- |> the amount of altitude you are losing. This is typically pretty fast. Thermal
- |> speed is your minimum sink rate, usually just a bit faster than stall.
- |
- |A guy at our club once told me a good tip for setting up a thermal soarer - once
- |you've found the cruise position, set up the elevator linkage so that full-down trim
- |gives you cruise. It makes it much easier to fly consistently when set like this. For
- |thermalling you pull as much up-trim as required for the conditions.
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- That's good for many planes. The thing is, my fave thermal soarer was the aforementioned
- Sagitta 900, and that airplane was special in that it had a "best cruise" that was fast
- enough that control (rud&elev) wasn't very sure, so I preferred to cruise around at a
- bit less than that. Full down trim would produce the unbelievably fast
- "streak-across-the-sky-let's-get-the-heck-OUT-of-there" cruise, and full up trim would
- give a typical minimum sink, and somewhere in between was the "normal" cruise. I think
- that that behavior was due to the "drag bucket" on the Eppeler 305 (?) airfoil used, and
- a clean model.
-
- I guess it just depends on your airplane. And nobody said it was easy. :-) :-) :-)
-
- Dave Svoboda, Palatine, IL
-