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Hi
What speed does everyone else use use for best angle and best rate of climb
in their 801s? I use 70 MPH for both. I could not get my airspeed to
stabilize enough to get more accurate.
What about best glide speed? Longest distance and longest time. I tried 68
MPH and got a 850' drop which gives a glide ratio or 7:1. Last fall after I
pulled the 801 off floats I was doing some touch and goes and it looked
like I glided a lot farther at 80 MPH than 70 MPH.
Does anyone have any data to share?
Here are my calculations for glide ratio:
68mph=100ft/sec=6000ft/min
6000 ft/min / 850 ft/min= 7:1
N801BW
Bill Wilcox
Soldotna, AK summer
Casa Grande, AZ winter
The 801 is in the hanger for the winter
800 hrs with 100 on floats
I posted this question on the Zenith.aero site. Ben, Ray and Dan answered.
Is there anyone else that flys an 801 that has experimented with this?
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| Subject: | Re: 701801-List: |
Hi Bill,
Not flying yet (boooo!) so can't help. But nice to know you're around. I
don't lurk on the forums much these days, but still plugging away on the
FWF. Just had to pull the bushings out of the engine shaft flange because
it's for a fixed-pitch prop, but I bought a Whirlwind prop which was
designed as a constant speed but then changed to a ground-adjustable.
Needs two flush bushings and four shorter than any of the fixed pitch
bushings. Demands of work have really interfered with plane-building for
the past 18 months.
Best,
John
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Bill Wilcox <akkeystone@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> What speed does everyone else use use for best angle and best rate of
> climb in their 801s? I use 70 MPH for both. I could not get my airspeed to
> stabilize enough to get more accurate.
>
> What about best glide speed? Longest distance and longest time. I tried
> 68 MPH and got a 850' drop which gives a glide ratio or 7:1. Last fall
> after I pulled the 801 off floats I was doing some touch and goes and it
> looked like I glided a lot farther at 80 MPH than 70 MPH.
>
> Does anyone have any data to share?
>
> Here are my calculations for glide ratio:
>
> 68mph=100ft/sec=6000ft/min
>
> 6000 ft/min / 850 ft/min= 7:1
>
> N801BW
>
> Bill Wilcox
>
> Soldotna, AK summer
>
> Casa Grande, AZ winter
>
> The 801 is in the hanger for the winter
>
> 800 hrs with 100 on floats
>
>
> I posted this question on the Zenith.aero site. Ben, Ray and Dan
> answered. Is there anyone else that flys an 801 that has experimented with
> this?
>
> *
>
>
> *
>
>
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