Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
...lanes high pitch that plane is battleing a strong headwind.in the air no GPS circle ground track you're drift you can come up with a fairly accurate assumption.GPS failsComment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
...ust referring to headwind component - our airspeed was 70, but our GPS said we were only going 40, s...to fly the heading we needed to, we climbed or descended and watched the GPS searching for an altitude tha...Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
Baffled, Fly a steady360 at constant airspeed, note the max and min speed on your GPS. wind speed = (max-min)/2 trike speed through the air = (max + min)/2 While you do the turn, note the heading where the GPS speed was lowest, that's the wind direction.Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
...you know or calculate the wind speed at the different altitudes as you are flying into them. is there some sort of math that comes into play? GPS speed over the ground minus i...Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
...was sucking down cigarettes (he re-started smoking for that day! ;) talking me in on a couple go arounds- one I bounced hard enough that the GPS flew out of it's cradle b...