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Ed,
That's excellent. Your engine quits so you go into test pilot mode and
get all the data you can. Glide is one advantage you RV guys will have
over me I think. From what I've heard, the BD-4 glides a little better
than a rock with power off. I've only got 2 hours flying time in it, so
I'm a little lite on first hand experience. Hopefully soon.
Was this before you upgraded to the "monster" prop?
Bob White
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:47:45 -0500
"Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
On my 12 mile engine out glide, I punched up the NRST button on my GPS
to find the two closest airfields were both 12 miles away (gulp!). Since I knew I was going to be gliding around 85 mph that any sort of
headwind would considerably shorten the glide. Fortunately I had been
paying attention to the wind direction as I was outrunning a cold
front, so turned 120 degs for the downwind field.
From 9500 MSL I arrived over the selected airfield with approx
1500-2000 ft AGL. I had altitude to do a 360 and a couple of hard
"S" turns to loose altitude and even then came over the fence at 100
mph. This with a stubby wing RV-6A.
I did have time in that 8 minute glide to find out that my best glide
speed (at that weight) was 87 MPH which produced a 750 fpm rate of
descent. Any slower the rate went up and any faster the rate went up.
Also were I found what airspeeds the prop would stop at as well as
what it took to get it going again. So a rather productive 8 minutes
all things considered {:>).
Ed Anderson
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