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No, we sure didn't. In fact, I like going faster than my wallet can keep up.
In doing some searching for LDmax for the Lancair ES, I read the statement that best economy would be the same as best glide. That makes sense to me. Probably close enough for our purposes. What say you?
Mark On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Al Gietzen <ALVentures@cox.net> wrote:
Where does one find the "most efficient
operationg point" for a particular airframe? Is this the same
as LDmax?
Mark;
The EM2 reads out MPG. Most efficient
operation would be where you get the highest MPG. So go fly at 100F, or so; lean
of peak EGT and take some data of MPG and speed. You’ll find a max
MPG point that is slower than you’ll typically want to fly. I think
for my Velocity it was a fairly broad peak around 125 (I don’t even remember
now if that was MPH or Kts; because I never fly there in level flight). We didn’t
build sleek airplanes with more powerful engines to go the speed of a Skyhawk –
did we?
Al
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