X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:58:09 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mta13.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.44] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c2) with ESMTP id 712090 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:39:20 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.168.78.44; envelope-from=dfs155@adelphia.net Received: from f3g6s4 ([67.22.46.165]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with SMTP id <20050905213827.VBBE12299.mta13.adelphia.net@f3g6s4> for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:38:27 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <001f01c5b262$ed020980$a52e1643@losaca.adelphia.net> From: "Dan Schaefer" X-Original-To: "Lancair list" Subject: Lancair Fly In X-Original-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:43:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 FWIW to all at the annual fly-in: Got to thinking about the stated average race speed for my 235 at the Fly-in yesterday of 217 MPH (188.7 Kts) and have got to believe that there must have been an error made, either in the timing or in the calculation. First, I made every turn (S39 Prineville, S33 Madras and 6K5 Sisters) directly over the points where my GPS Time-to-go indicator hit zero. Of course, I also looked down as I banked toward the next check-point and verified that I was, indeed, over the right airport (I've seen them all before as they've all been used as race turn-points several times in the past) so I know didn't cut any short. Second, my GPS ground speed read-out indicated that, except for the short climb-out to 4800 MSL, I was running consistently between 169 and 171 Kts GS around the entire course. I calculate that 170 Kts meant I was running 195.5 MPH for most of the time which should have yielded slightly less for the average (due to the time to climb) for the race. This speed is more consistent with my results in the past (this was about the 7th if 8th Lancair race I've run over the years) which has always been in the 195 - 200 MPH range. I would LIKE to believe that I outran all the other 235's, 320's and 360's with my 235 like Tim said I did but it just doesn't compute. At the more defendable 195 MPH for N235SP, the 360's of Chuck Werner (N749CC) and Roy Bredfield (N35BZ) turned in faster times. I did pass one 320 and went faster than two 360's and two 320's at 195 MPH, so I'll take the win, regardless of the fact that I don't think I could squeeze 217 MPH out of N235SP except during a descent. Dan Schaefer.