Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([66.129.220.6] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 565314 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:40:04 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.129.220.6; envelope-from=pjmick@viclink.com Received: from viclink.com (p017.AS1.viclink.com [66.129.192.17]) by mail.viclink.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id iBDDdI247675 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:39:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41BD9B14.3090006@viclink.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:37:24 -0800 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: RV-3 down References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080600040308050307010507" --------------080600040308050307010507 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've never tested engine out glide, but I also plan with 1000 ft/min. And if you assume a 10:1 glide ratio, you can glide 10,000 fpm, or 1.65 nm or 1.9 sm per 1000 ft. of altitude. When I do test flights, I try to stay within 1 nm of the airport for each 1000 ft of AGL. For example, 5000 ft AGL, stay within a 5 nm radius. Easy with GPS. Finn Lassen wrote: > Engine stopped is different from engine idle approaches. At least in > my RV-3. During my most recent engine out, I took time to look at rate > of decent at best glide speed. Close to 900 ft/min. I think at idle > it's about 700 ft/min. So to plan 1000 ft/min is a good number. > > Finn > --------------080600040308050307010507 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've never tested engine out glide, but I also plan with 1000 ft/min. And if you assume a 10:1 glide ratio, you can glide 10,000 fpm, or 1.65 nm or 1.9 sm per 1000 ft. of altitude. When I do test flights, I try to stay within 1 nm of the airport for each 1000 ft of AGL. For example, 5000 ft AGL, stay within a 5 nm radius. Easy with GPS.

Finn Lassen wrote:

Engine stopped is different from engine idle approaches. At least in my RV-3. During my most recent engine out, I took time to look at rate of decent at best glide speed. Close to 900 ft/min. I think at idle it's about 700 ft/min. So to plan 1000 ft/min is a good number.

Finn

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