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Caracole (Caracole@ccis.com) wrote:

: "Mark Kolber" wrote in message
: news:nihq5ukhpvmnq84mpjsbq6mt7hdulfdoe2@4ax.com...
: > On 1 Feb 2002 16:23:38 GMT, kamiensk@ucsu.colorado.edu (J. C.
: > Kamienski) wrote:
: >
: > >A friend of mine is currently training for his private. His instructor
: > >taught him to find best glide by trimming full nose-up, and whatever
: > >airspeed the plane settles on is near-enough best glide.
: >

: Maybe I came to the thread late. . . .
: Reading from this part of the post, it doesnt offer information as to what
: make/model of aircraft, what loading of the machine, what power setting,
: and to what purpose the instructor was intending to apply the use of
: best glide speed.


Thats part of the problem I had, and why I questioned this instructors
method of teaching. He told my friend that full nose-up trim should work
to find best glide in ANY typical single engine plane, under any circumstance,
which just didnt make sense to me.

From the responses here, it sounds like hes not the only one to use that
rule-of-thumb, although there also seem to be some good reasons why it wont
work.

I had never heard it during my training, so thats why I asked about it here.



Jill
N8909T

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