I was surprised at how much the glide ratio deteriorated with

the engine stopped.   I had assumed the prop was generating about the

same

drag at engine idle as engine stopped.  Had 600 - 700 fpm sink rate

at idle

and 900 fpm with engine dead.  My Anywhere Map GPS (running on Ipaq)

shows

cone of safety around airports when you plug in your glide ratio.

Tracy Crook
tcrook@rotaryaviation.com
www.rotaryaviation.com

Tracy,

I have seen a friend's demo of the Compaq IPAQ with Anywhere Map, and

was

mightly impressed.  Do you use "transcriber"?  If not, you should give

it a try.

I was surprised to find that this handwriting recognition program works

so

amazingly
well.  It can do input into (I'm told) any app on the IPAQ.  Transcriber

is a

freeby part of the OS, a 'subset' of Calligrapher handwriting

recognition

software
provided by MS.  The two phrases I wrote in script for demos were read
correctly, no training of me or the computer, just cold.  Powerful

stuff.

Bill Freeman
Long EZ builder & pilot
BSME, MSME
EAA Technical Counselor

Along with the Ipaq's sunlight readable display and reasonable price, its
hard to beat.  I especially like the fact that it is instantly upgradable
with new features too.  Terrain avoidance feature which shows virtual
landscape on screen will soon be available and I plan to get the Anywhere
Weather upgrade (real time doppler radar data overlayed on the map) soon.

A few weeks ago Roger Mandeville (Auto Tech, they build race cars of the
$1,000,000 variety)  and I met at Dave Garber's place and got the front
engine on Daves racer running right again.  Problem turned out to be a
faulty throttle position sensor and the difficulty of finding the problem
with it made me glad I didn't use one in the EC2!  Only an odd noise in the
gear drive needs to be resolved before it is ready to race again.

Roger was in charge of Mazda's race program back in the 70's.   They got
parts at factory cost.  At that time, a rotor housing cost $26.00 !  A new
engine could be built for $150.00.     Retail cost of a rotor housing now is
around  $400.00.

Tracy Crook
tcrook@rotaryaviation.com
www.rotaryaviation.com

Super Tracy. Great work. If Dave entered the airplane in the Sun 100 race
in April Sun & Fun he could blow all those piston guys out of the skys
with 660 HP. Even if there were no cats for twins he could run in a demo cat.
I'll bet it sounds great.

Paul Lamar
 
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