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Old 16th June 2011 | 01:54
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photofly
 
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Re 10% of airspeed+7:

It may be accurate enough, but it's still not very accurate, particularly at low speed. The correct expression should, I think, be arctan(v/364), where v is the speed in knots.

At 50 knots, the approximation gives 12 degrees where the right answer is 8 degrees. At 80 knots, 15, where the right answer is 12. By 130 knots the error is less than a degree. The two agree exactly at only one speed, which is about 160.5 knots.
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