Rick,
I'll risk answering this, because there's not much activity on Matronics from
the
Europa crowd. Maybe most of them are busy with cool things like Sun 'n Fun,
which we in darkest Scotland can only dream of. So your query represents an
exciting
challenge for me.
100 ft / min = 1knot. Actually it's 101.33 ft / min, but 100 is close enough. So
convert your least amount of descent, e.g. 500 ft / min to knots, which would
be near enough 5 knots downwards.
Divide your forward glide speed, say 75 knots by the vertical speed of 5 knots
in this example, which would give a glide ratio of 15:1.
Thanks for stimulating my grey matter.
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