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Flying on the cheap: ‘interesting’ ways to limit hourly costs

Capitaine wrote:

@Ibra in theory you could go gliding in most GA types with a bit of power to improve the ‘glide ratio’

You can make the gradient positive in some instances. We caught some decent wave in the Auster one time, and were climbing at 1,000 fpm with the engine almost pulled back to idle. Wasn’t brave enough to actually shut it down :-)

Andreas IOM
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