Performance Advantage Calculator
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Chris Grantham
Apr 8, 2008, 5:54:16 PM4/8/08
to Atlanta Paragliding
A few of us were talking about glide performance and speed the other
day during ground school so I dug up my old FileMaker calculator and
revamped it for Excel so you guys could play with it. I don't have
Excel, I just exported it out of my editor as an XLS document so I
have no idea what it'll look like for you all but here it is anyway.
The most interesting calculation is to compare a glider with an 8.5
glide at 23 mph, to a glider with an 8.0 glide at 23 mph in no wind
over a 1 mile distance.......Not as much of an advantage as you'd
think...;)
http://www.ojai.net/oblique/GlideCalculator.xls
day during ground school so I dug up my old FileMaker calculator and
revamped it for Excel so you guys could play with it. I don't have
Excel, I just exported it out of my editor as an XLS document so I
have no idea what it'll look like for you all but here it is anyway.
The most interesting calculation is to compare a glider with an 8.5
glide at 23 mph, to a glider with an 8.0 glide at 23 mph in no wind
over a 1 mile distance.......Not as much of an advantage as you'd
think...;)
http://www.ojai.net/oblique/GlideCalculator.xls
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