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Good thing that the manufacturers do it for us during certification, lol.

Thanks, I tried to make it easy to follow, but there are a lot of factors considered when calculating this stuff.

I wouldn't delete it. If you didn't find it, others will have trouble too and it is a good "sign post" question.

Or would that be infamous? Hard to decide....

@TomMcW That's part of the challenge/fun with gliding! In good conditions, you can stay up for a really long time. Other times you beat the two plane down, lol.

@TomMcW Absolutely! Of course, the FAA definition of cross country is more than 25 miles. That being said, glider competitions are often triangular courses hundreds of miles long where the best time is the winner.

@mins Cool, thanks! Hopefully the OP will clarify what he is looking for.

@Federico Yeah, I used to look at the winds, just to stay generally upwind of the airport. I didn't do any cross country flights when I was doing it, but it would be important for that too.

@mins Well, we have users from all over the world, and if we make an incorrect assumption we could get answers that don't apply. I'm more in the camp that says to ask them, and close it as too broad if they don't answer in a reasonable period of time. That's just my opinion though.

@mins Hey! I just saw that you edited this question and changed it to be specific to the US, but didn't see where the OP had clarified that. Just curious about the assumption?

@mins You around?

@Federico It's been years, but I used to fly gliders.

@falstro Actually, they are identical as far as I can tell other than the color and the one line (which messes up the logo on meta). The scale is the same, etc. I LIKE the color difference because it highlights that you aren't on the main site, but with only the one line being different, it looks like a mistake.

The background map is also slightly different between the main site and the meta site. (Only at the top left corner, where the route intersects the logo on meta but not on the main site.)

aviation.stackexchange.com/q/27734/69 needs an answer with pictures, showing the right angle, too low, and too high. Then we can explain what to look for....

@Shalvenay That sounds interesting!

@Shalvenay Hey, how's it going?

I'm bored...

Well, good luck with it and have a good night!

Haha, of course

I'm getting ready for bed myself. What kind of project?

What's up with you?

Haha, I'll try.

Not bad, at recurrent training.

@Shalvenay Hey!

@Shalvenay Here on a trip for the owners of the airplane that I fly. They wanted to ski this weekend, and while there were a few flurries in Northern Florida, there isn't a lot of skiing in Miami. ;-)

Okay, I'm off to dinner, thanks for chatting!

@Shalvenay Perfect, thanks.

@Shalvenay Well, I just wanted to get rid of atc. FBO would probably be better than international (or maybe all three?).

@MikeFoxtrot Very nice!

@Shalvenay Yes, we typically use them when we need to secure permits ahead of time, or at places that are... complicated to deal with on our own (may times government services for customs, flight plans, etc. must be paid for in person and in the local currency, for instance).

Nice, flying them or designing/programming them?

Hey Mike! What were you doing as an intern?

I was going to put that in my answer, thanks for the reminder.

@Shalvenay Sort of... A handler often works with different FBO's too.

I'm having problems coming up with good tags for it.

Can someone help to retag this question: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24561/what-is-a-handler

But with the weather, I would expect things to be busier.

Haha, well that's why I was asking if it was normal these days.

That's too bad, it was always fun, entertaining, and even occasionally informative in here before!

Is it usually this quiet here these days? Back when I used to be active in chat, there were always people talking.

The people who came here to ski might not like the clear skies though, lol.

Beautiful actually! Clear skys and highs in the mid-fourties.

I'm spending the weekend in Eagle, CO rightnow.

Haha, no thanks.

@falstro I know! Lots of flying, and even more office work, lol.

Haha, I used to be here a lot, but my "new" job doesn't give me much leisure time.

Lol, so could fltplan.com, but it is still a great service.

www.fltplan.com is a great (free) resource for flight planning.