At 15:36 11 March 2006, Doug Hoffman wrote:
I should point out that the above is a bit of an oversimplificatio
n in
that the distance travelled through the air will be
greater than the
ground track distance. So it would take a bit longer
than 1 hour to
glide 60 *ground* nm at an *airspeed* of 60 knots.
Also, it would take
proportionally longer than 36 minutes to cover the
same ground from a
4,000 ft higher altitude. A more rigorous calculation
would account
for this.


0018 and .0022 minutes longer respectively - I think
we can safely call that false precision.

9B