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Originally Posted by Larry Jacks
**By comparison, I doubt the L/D ratio of my Piper Cherokee light plane is more than 8 or 9. My plane just doesn't glide all that far if the throttle is cut. I sometimes wonder if Piper engineers skipped drag class.
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It's been almost 3 decades since my aviation classes, but IIRC, a Cessna 172 was around 7...so you're lucky.