I wonder why that is not the same with 3 meter planes.
I zoom at 60 deg if I need to get some where quick or punch through a headwind to some wave lift. Most the time my zoom is greater than 60 deg, closer to 80.
Steve Meyer LSF IV SOAR
At 09:40 PM 10/20/2004, Mark Williams wrote:
George,
I have many times used the additional energy from the zoom to gain distance upwind, thus a shallower than vertical pull up. Which is why, I guess I tend toward that zoom profile in the range of 45 to 60 degrees. So, your comment confirms some of my initial deductions on this subject. Sometimes here in the breezy Midwest even carrying ballast it is difficult to cover enough air upwind of the desired landing point. It would still seem to me that if the lift vector is horizontal that equates to lost energy or altitude.
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