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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:13:04 -0600
From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: TAS calibration
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 8:02:09 -0500
<atlasyts@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
> > Date: 2007/05/16 Wed AM 07:33:52 EST
> > To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: TAS calibration
> > 
> > Bulent Aliev wrote:
> > > Here is another question for the electronics gurus.
> > > I noticed on the EM2 TAS is always 15-18 K while the plane is still? I 
> > > thought it is supposed to be zero? If so, I could not see a way to 
> > > adjust it?
> > > Buly
> > >
> > That number happens to be somewhat close to the value of the 
> > acceleration that a prop introduces to the air.  Where is your pitot 
> > located?  That may be what the sensors are actually seeing.
> >
> 
> My pitot is in the nose (CZ MK-IV) and the prop at the back. Plane sitting in the hangar. No air movement.
> Buly
> 
Hi Buly,

I'm pretty sure there is a calibration setting in the EM2. Mine wasn't
zero either and I seem to recall adjusting it.  I'll have to look thru
my notes to see if I can find it.

Bob W.

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