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4. Final glide
Here's a suggestion. Flying final glides is the most comfortable when you use the Required L/D and
Current L/D
navboxes . What they do is they show the required L/D to the finish line and current L/D
you are doing at the moment. You are on glide slope when Current L/D is higher than Required L/D. The
calculation already includes reserve altitude. The nice part is that it is insensitive to the MC setting, glider
polar, wind calculation, setting for bugs and ballast. All of them can be wrong when you try to math
through the glider polar.
Current L/D however is pragmatic - it tells you what you are doing. Required L/D is pragmatic as well. It
tells you what you should be doing. If Current L/D is higher than the Required one you are doing good. If
it looks like you can keep going like that, you are doing great.
Have fun making those final glides!
See also:
Getting Started
3.8 Flying Assigned Area tasks
In an Assigned Area task one has a choice of a large area where a turnpoint can be set. Speed is all that
matters in an Assigned Area task. The pilot should have one fix in each are so, that he can maximize the
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