FPH

[Rich]

Hi there - I'm doing some work on extracting atmospheric information
from the flight log of a well-instrumented glider, but there is one
measurement that is baffling me - what is FPH a measure of?

It is measured in degrees and ranges between 0 and 180 degrees over
the whole flight. I initially thought it might have been a heading of
some sort, but the range seeems to disagree with that.

Any info would be appreciated.

thanks,
Richard

[Peter Creswick]

Rich wrote:
>
> Hi there - I'm doing some work on extracting atmospheric information
> from the flight log of a well-instrumented glider, but there is one
> measurement that is baffling me - what is FPH a measure of?
>
> It is measured in degrees and ranges between 0 and 180 degrees over
> the whole flight. I initially thought it might have been a heading of
> some sort, but the range seeems to disagree with that.
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Richard

Show us a sample of the data.

[mike fadden]

I know this isn't right but you couldn't be more that 180 degrees From
Programmed Heading. You'd be something less than that but in the other
direction ;').

Mike Fadden

[Rich]

(mike fadden) wrote in message >...
> I know this isn't right but you couldn't be more that 180 degrees From
> Programmed Heading. You'd be something less than that but in the other
> direction ;').
>
> Mike Fadden

Thanks Mike - I just realised I made a bit of a stuff up. It does
range over the full 360 degrees, and thus is just a bearing (heading)
which agrees well with groundspeed calculations from GPS. Which is not
really what I wanted to find, makes it just another redundant
measurement.

Does it actually stand for Programmed Heading or Present Heading?
(with some F word - Fly?)

cheers,
Richard

[Kirk Stant]

(Rich) wrote in message >...

> Does it actually stand for Programmed Heading or Present Heading?
> (with some F word - Fly?)
>
> cheers,
> Richard

Flight Path Heading?

Kirk

[Rich]

Kirk Stant wrote:

> (Rich) wrote in message >...
>
>
>>Does it actually stand for Programmed Heading or Present Heading?
>>(with some F word - Fly?)
>>
>>cheers,
>>Richard
>
>
> Flight Path Heading?
>
> Kirk

Yes I do have a tendency to overlook the obvious. :p

Rich