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256 Using Math to Fly Safely – Catherine Cavagnaro + GA News

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Canyon Turns and Parasitic Drag

People are just working too hard by making all of those adjustments when they should just wait for the plane to settle down and then make those trim adjustments. The faster you go that drag increases dramatically. You have never quite understood the reason people fly down canyons unless maybe they have a very power limited to aircraft or they're trying to stay below some oxygen altitude I have never in my life flown down a Canyon to me it's just kind of fraught with the right with problems.

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