Tips for flying LongEZ in Russia?

longezdreamer
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Tips for flying LongEZ in Russia? Aug 1, 2022 16:16:25 GMT jharris1993 likes this

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Post by longezdreamer on Aug 1, 2022 16:16:25 GMT

A Russian friend has invited me to fly my LongEz at his local GA airport (UUMO).

I fly the LongEZ with "standard six plus G530". Any chance the glass cockpit version has a US/nonUS setting?

I'm trying to figure out what conversion tables I need to have handy, since the "standard six" LongEZ

Altimeter is in inches of mercury but ATIS will be in hPa millibars
Altimeter reads in feet, I'm guessing pattern altitude will be in meters
VVI reads in feet per minute. Will I need to know this in meters per second or some other units?
Garmin530 shows distances in nautical miles. Will I need to convert to kilometers to announce "LongEZ 10 km south entering downwind for rwy 09" ?

I noticed wind speed is in meters per second, so a 2 or 2.2 to be exact multiplier gets me the familiar miles per hour for crosswind.

Any other things I should be ready for?

Still loving the vSkyLabs LongEZ - approaching 150 hours in it now.

Only issue I have really is the IVAO X-CSL and MSFS MTL don't have a LongEZ (yet). I have requests into both groups, but in the mean time I have been choosing to appear as an ICON A5 which at least is a pusher.

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jharris1993
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Tips for flying LongEZ in Russia? Sept 1, 2022 23:08:07 GMT

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Post by jharris1993 on Sept 1, 2022 23:08:07 GMT

I'll second that!

For what it's worth, I'm the friend who invited him to fly with me. (Actually, HE suggested we fly together, and pointed me to your aircraft.) I bought the aircraft and I think I'm in love. . . . .

A suggestion if I may, (and no, I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be to implement):

Since a particular aircraft can be used by people anywhere in the world, to fly anywhere in the world, using a group flying network anywhere in the world, it would make sense to allow the aircraft to use the local system of measurement - metric or imperial - so the ATIS information and/or chart information can be used directly without conversion.

Absent that, a particular user, (say one in Europe), will have to translate and/or convert measurements to the local system with potential for error and embarrassment.

Perhaps a setting in a user-editable preferences file could be used?

Thanks!

Jim

Last Edit: Sept 1, 2022 23:32:26 GMT by jharris1993

Hey boss!
Why is there a big food processor on the front of this thing?

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Post by longezdreamer on Aug 1, 2022 16:16:25 GMT

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