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Old 17th May 2002 | 01:53
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john_tullamarine
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From: various places .....
Suggest you track down a text on instruments for the details of the innards ..... there is no need for a temperature input as Mach can be expressed in terms of altitude and CAS only. The equation comes down to something along the lines of

M = (5((qc/ps+1)^0.286-1))^0.5

(presuming that I have counted my brackets and put them in the correct spots).

Just think of the machmeter as a fancy ASI ....
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