Posted for "JJ JOHNSON" <JJJOHNSON@ACCESSCOMM.CA>:
I'm not sure if  the FAA training curiculum has this but up here in Canada
we get taught to find flight for endurance and flight for range speeds right
in the a/c. Now its been 6 yrs since I did those training flights and they
were in the first 10 hrs of flight training. However, first chance I get
I'll open my books and let you know how its done. The basics of it were to
reduce 100 RPM's and see the result..  I think when the speed drops started
to increase...  ie  the first 1000 Rpm's each 100 Rpm showed 5mph decrease..
but after the frist 1000 that started to increase  ie..  7mph drops..
anyway.. the net result was to increase the Rpm back up that 100 rpm... and
that was your endurance speed.. or something of the sort..  I'll have to
check my book.  Now this is testing for endurance.. and I believe that your
best endurance speed.. [ best lift/drag speed] will be the same speed used
to get your best glide speed.. for a good rule of thumb.. best rate of climb
speed.. is best glide rate speed as well.


Jarrett Johnson

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