[NSRCA-discussion] Height of manuevers

[Derek Koopowitz]

Great information, Earl.  Thanks...

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Earl Haury <ejhaury at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Found a couple of the Aresti with for P11-F11 from last fall when I was
> sorting out the sequences. Looks like the max altitude for the M was 960ft.,
> stall turn 875 as the tallest for P, the Top Hat 920, stall turn 1200
> (oops), humpty 930, for F - everything else tops out closer to 800 max.
>
> Earl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Derek Koopowitz <derekkoopowitz at gmail.com>
> *To:* General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:09 PM
> *Subject:* [NSRCA-discussion] Height of manuevers
>
> Has anyone done any testing using a altimeter of sorts such as Eagletree's
> altimeter option to figure out exactly how high some of our maneuvers end
> up?  In using basic Trigonometry I can estimate that if a plane is flown at
> 150 meters at a 60 degree angle then the plane should be around 260m (around
> 800') high... do we fly higher than this?  Obviously the further out one
> flies then the higher one gets if at 60 degrees.
>
> Are there any true measurements that one could relay to me... or if someone
> has an altimeter, could you test it out and let me know please?  I'm
> particularly interested in current sequences/maneuvers... especially F3A or
> Masters.  I don't think the lower classes get to an altitude that is of any
> significance (generally speaking of course).
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nsrca.org/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20100908/2a31518f/attachment.html>