Quinton O

Do you have a VSI? I assume that a Dynon Skyview would have such a feature. A 3 degree glide slope (typical for ILS approach) is 304 ft/nm, and 60 kts is 1 nm/min. Using that you can calculate that at 90 kts your descent rate should be 456 ft/min on your VSI, which I think is pretty comfortable. If you're feeling the need for speed, or you're cruise descending a bit further out from the airport you could do 120 kts and descend 608 ft/min. Or just round it to 600 😄 You can also use that 304 ft/nm figure to calculate where you should start your descent, and/or to crosscheck what altitude you should be at given your distance from the airport. ~3000' above aerodrome elevation at 10 miles, ~6000' at 20 etc. I used to have to sketch this out for my ATC students all the time as they would try to vector aircraft too high and too close to the airport for the ILS, forcing interception of the glide slope from above. A fighter pilot might not mind so much, but grandma is gonna toss her cookies on that passenger flight because her pilot got vectors to intercept at 10 miles at 6000 feet...

Hey guys. Had to create a new account because sign-in with Facebook doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm down in Oklahoma, and helping a friend with his Long EZ project. He purchased someone else's project and that person had acquired all the materials and completed through I think Chapter 5. The issue we're having is that for some reason it seems that the previous owner trimmed the LWY wood piece that's part of the main gear attachment flush at the back, instead of leaving the 1.6" that the plans call for, and that would ordinarily protrude through the firewall. I'll attach a couple of pictures once I can get a decent connection. My question is: Are we boned on this? I don't really see a way to fix this other than rebuilding the fuselage sides if these are structurally important.