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Old September 27th 03, 05:23 PM
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"JJ Sinclair"
I fly a lot in the mountains and find MacCready speed-to-fly information,
completely worthless. Let me explain; Before crossing a ridge, I will fly
slower (below MC), so that I'm assured of making the next ridge. After

crossing
the ridge, I may fly faster than MacCready. If I set the proper MC setting

in
my computer. I am constantly bombarded with WRONG information coming from

the
computer audio.

Interesting. Why wouldn't you treat crossing a ridge as a final glide
condition and set the appropriate MC to make it? Then why wouldn't you go
back to normal MC setting after crossing, i.e. forecast you next climb? I
would think that both of these approaches would result in highest speed over
distance.

Haven't done this stuff in awhile but that's what I recall from the theory.