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A polar calculation question for you number crunching enthusiasts out there



 
 
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Old February 23rd 14, 11:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default A polar calculation question for you number crunching enthusiasts out there

I'm trying to use Paul Remde's very handy "Reichmann to Cambridge and SeeYou" spreadsheet to derive some usable SeeYou polar numbers for my Diana-1. But I'm having a heck of a time picking three speed/sink-rate pairs from the data set that result in Max L/D and Best Glide Speed numbers that pass the sniff test.

For example, I can enter 3 pairs of values from early, middle, and late in the data set, and it tells me I have a max L/D of 49 (wouldn't that be nice!) at ... 38 km/h. Uh, that's well below stall speed!

Is there any conventional wisdom on this?

Are there any other tools available that can take a set of sink rates (hopefully more than 3) and produce some decent numbers?

Wishing the flight computers would just start with lookup tables,

tuno/ES
 




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