The high capacitance and inductance and low resistance of the antenna-loading coil combination, makes it act electrically like a variometer ) to tune the antenna.
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Compensated variometers also include information about the speed of the aircraft, so the total energy ( kinetic ) is used, not just the change in altitude.
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Advanced electronic variometers in gliders can present other information to the pilot from MacCready setting, which is the expected rate of climb in the next acceptable thermal.
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It consists of variometer, altimeter, speed indicator in the top line and two smaller engine instruments below ( revolution counter and valve head temperature indicator ).
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The first portable variometer for use in hang gliders was the Colver Variometer by Colver Soaring Instruments which served to extend the sport into cross-country thermal flying.
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The first portable variometer for use in hang gliders was the Colver Variometer by Colver Soaring Instruments which served to extend the sport into cross-country thermal flying.
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For example, if a pilot pushes forward on the stick, speeding up as the plane dives, an uncompensated variometer only indicates that altitude is being lost.
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The cockpit lacked a windscreen but was well instrumented for a glider of the day, with air speed indicator, altimeter, turn and bank indicator and variometer.
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Instrumentation was generous, including a variometer though lacking an artificial horizon for cloud flying . of water ballast was contained in a tank behind the pilot's seat.
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In early hang gliding, variometers were not needed for the short flights or flights close to ridge lift . But the variometer became key as pilots began making longer flights.
