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| ''The term '''variometer''' also refers to a type of variable [[Transformer_types#Variocoupler|transformer]] or an instrument for measuring the magnitude and direction of a [[Magnetic field]].''
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| A '''variometer''' (also known as a '''rate of climb and descent Indicator (RCDI)''', '''rate-of-climb indicator''', '''vertical speed indicator (VSI)''', or '''vertical velocity indicator (VVI)''') is one of the [[flight instruments]] in an [[aircraft]] used to inform the [[aviator|pilot]] of the near instantaneous (rather than averaged) rate of descent or climb.<ref name=FAA07>[[Federal Aviation Administration]], ''Glider Flying Handbook'', Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2007
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| ISBN 1-60239-061-4 pages 4-7 and 4-8</ref> It can be calibrated in [[knot (unit)|knots]], feet per minute (101.333 ft/min = 1 kn) or [[metres per second]], depending on country and type of aircraft.
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| In powered [[flight]] the pilot makes frequent use of the '''VSI''' to ascertain that level flight is being maintained, especially during turning maneuvers. In [[gliding]], the instrument is used almost continuously during normal flight, often with an audible output, to inform the pilot of rising or sinking air. It is usual for gliders to be equipped with more than one type of variometer. The simpler type does not need an external source of power and can therefore be relied upon to function regardless of whether a battery or power source has been fitted. The electronic type with audio needs a power source to be operative during the flight. The instrument is of little interest during launching and landing, with the exception of [[aerotow]], where the pilot will usually want to avoid releasing in sink.
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| [[Image:R22-VSI.jpg|thumb|The [[vertical speed indicator]] from a [[Robinson R22]]. This is the most common type used in [[aircraft]], showing speed in feet per minute]]
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| [[Image:Gleitschirmvario.jpg|thumb|upright|A variometer for [[paraglider]]s, [[hang glider]]s, and [[balloon]]eers, showing vertical speed with both a [[ribbon indicator]] and a numeric readout]]
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| ==Description==
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| [[Image:Faa vertical air speed.JPG|thumb|left|Schematic drawing of the internals of a classic aircraft variometer]]
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| Variometers measure the rate of change of altitude by detecting the change in air pressure (static pressure) as altitude changes. A simple variometer can be constructed by adding a large reservoir (a thermos bottle) to augment the storage capacity of a common aircraft rate-of-climb instrument. In its simplest electronic form, the instrument consists of an air bottle connected to the external atmosphere through a sensitive air flow meter. As the aircraft changes altitude, the atmospheric pressure outside the aircraft changes and air flows into or out of the air bottle to equalise the pressure inside the bottle and outside the aircraft. The rate and direction of flowing air is measured by the cooling of one of two self-heating [[thermistor]]s and the difference between the thermistor resistances will cause a voltage difference; this is amplified and displayed to the pilot. The faster the aircraft is ascending (or descending), the faster the air flows. Air flowing out of the bottle indicates that the altitude of the aircraft is increasing. Air flowing into the bottle indicates that the aircraft is descending.
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| Newer variometer designs directly measure the static pressure of the atmosphere using a pressure sensor and detect changes in altitude directly from the change in air pressure instead of by measuring air flow. These designs tend to be smaller as they do not need the air bottle. They are more reliable as there is no bottle to be affected by changes in temperature and less chances for leaks to occur in the connecting tubes.
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| The designs described above, which measure the rate of change of altitude by automatically detecting the change in static pressure as the aircraft changes altitude are referred to as "uncompensated" variometers. The term "vertical speed indicator" or "VSI" is most often used for the instrument when it is installed in a powered aircraft. The term "variometer" is most often used when the instrument is installed in a glider or sailplane.
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| An "Inertia lead" VSI or ILVSI compensates for relative [[g-force|"''g''" forces]] experienced in a turn (powered aircraft) and provides appropriate mechanical compensation to remove otherwise erroneous indications of climb or descent.
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| [[File:Cair-Xk10-vario.jpeg|thumb|Panel mounted variometer for [[Glider (sailplane)|gliders]]]]
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| ==Purpose==
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| Human beings, unlike birds and other flying animals, are not able directly to sense climb and sink rates. Before the invention of the variometer, [[sailplane]] pilots found it very hard to [[Gliding|soar]]. Although they could readily detect abrupt ''changes'' in vertical speed ("in the seat of the pants"), their senses did not allow them to distinguish lift from sink, or strong lift from weak lift. The ''actual'' climb/sink rate could not even be guessed at, unless there was some clear fixed visual reference nearby. Being near a fixed reference means being near to a hillside, or to the ground. Except when hill-soaring (exploiting the lift close to the up-wind side of a hill), these are generally very unprofitable positions for glider pilots to be in. The most useful forms of lift ([[thermal]] and [[Lee waves|wave]] lift) are found at higher altitudes and it is very hard for a pilot to detect or exploit them without the use of a variometer. After the variometer was invented in 1929 by [[Alexander Lippisch]] and [[Robert Kronfeld]],<ref name=googlebooks>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=x0uLSdn_hFUC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=%22invented+the+variometer%22|title=Dreams of flight|author=Michael H. Bednarek|year=2003|work=Dreams of flight |accessdate=2009-05-25}}</ref> the sport of [[gliding]] moved into a new realm.
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| ==Total energy compensation==
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| As the sport developed, however, it was found that these very simple "uncompensated" instruments had their limitations. The information that glider pilots really need to soar is the vertical speed of the glider in isolation of [[stick thermal]]s, i.e., in isolation of changes in altitude due exclusively to changes in speed.
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| When the pilot chooses to pull up to enter a [[thermal]] or to dive to exit a sink area, an uncompensated variometer will include the change in altitude due to the change in velocity in its read-out, thus marring the airmass' climb or sink rate. Therefore an uncompensated variometer can only accurately indicate the vertical speed of the airmass when flying at constant speed.
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| The action of diving or pulling up affects the speed of the sailplane. A sailplane can exchange height for speed or speed for height, i.e. [[potential energy]] for [[kinetic energy]] or kinetic energy for potential energy. In fact, in still air, the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy, i.e., the ''Total Energy'', remains constant (neglecting energy loss due to drag), hence the name ''Total Energy compensation''.
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| Most modern sailplanes are equipped with ''Total Energy compensated'' variometers.
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| ===Total energy compensation in theory===
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| While the driving principle is:
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| 1. Potential Energy + Kinetic Energy = Total Energy
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| the compensation to cancel stick thermals is:
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| 2. Potential Energy '''Gained''' = Kinetic Energy '''Lost''' (''stick thermal'')
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| i.e.:
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| 3. <math>\Delta E_{pot} = -\Delta E_{kin}</math>
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| or
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| 4. <math>\Delta E_{pot} + \Delta E_{kin} = 0</math>
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| Since
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| 5. Potential Energy is proportional to Height (<math>E_{pot} \propto h</math>)
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| and
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| 6. Kinetic Energy is proportional to Velocity squared (<math>E_{kin} \propto v^2</math>),
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| then from (3):
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| 7. <math>\Delta h \propto -\Delta(v^2)</math>
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| where
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| 8. Δ''h'' is the compensation to apply to the uncompensated variometer reading.
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| [[Image:vans rv-4 g-rviv arp.jpg|thumb|right|The Vertical Speed Indicator in this [[Van's RV-4]] light aircraft is on the top row, on the right.]]
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| ===Total energy compensation in practice===
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| In most sailplanes, total energy compensation is achieved by connecting the variometer to the atmosphere via a "total energy probe", that produces vacuum proportional to the square of the glider's air speed—in effect, a negative pitot. Alternatively, the subtraction may be done electronically by the flight computer based on indicated airspeed (pitot).
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| Very few powered aircraft have total energy variometers. The pilot of a powered aircraft is more interested in the true rate of change of altitude, as he often wants to hold a constant altitude or maintain a steady climb or descent.
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| The total energy probe used to be shaped as a classical [[venturi effect|venturi]] (two small funnels connected back-to-back by their narrow ends), or nowadays the [[Frank Irving|Irving]] Tube—a slot or pair of holes on the back side of a quarter inch vertical tube. The geometry of the total energy probe is such that air flow generates suction (reduced pressure).
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| To maximise the precision of this compensation effect, the total energy probe needs to be in undisturbed airflow ahead of the aircraft nose or tail fin (the "Braunschweig tube",<ref>Nicks, Oran, A Simple Total Energy Sensor, NASA TM X-73928, March 1976</ref> the long cantilevered tube with a kink in the end that can be seen projecting from the leading edge of the tail fin on most modern sailplanes.)
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| ==Netto variometer==
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| A second type of compensated variometer is the '''Netto''' or '''airmass''' variometer. In addition to TE compensation, the Netto variometer adjusts for the intrinsic sink rate of the glider at a given speed (the [[polar curve (aviation)|polar curve]]) adjusted for the [[wing loading]] due to water ballast. The Netto variometer will always read zero in still air. This provides the pilot with the accurate measurement of air mass vertical movement critical for final glides.
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| The '''Relative Netto Variometer''' indicates the vertical speed the glider would achieve IF it flies at thermalling speed - independent of current air speed and attitude. This reading is calculated as the Netto reading minus the glider's minimum sink.
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| When the glider circles to thermal, the pilot needs to know the glider's vertical speed instead of that of the air mass. The '''Relative Netto Variometer''' (or sometimes the '''super Netto''') includes a g-sensor to detect thermalling.
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| When thermalling, the sensor will detect acceleration (gravity plus centrifugal) above 1 g and tell the relative netto variometer to stop subtracting the sailplane's wing load-adjusted polar sink rate for the duration. Some earlier nettos used a manual switch instead of the g sensor.
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| ==Electronic variometers==
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| In modern gliders, most electronic variometers generate a sound whose pitch and rhythm depends on the instrument reading. Typically the audio tone increases in frequency as the variometer shows a higher rate of climb and decreases in frequency towards a deep groan as the variometer shows a faster rate of descent. When the variometer is showing a climb, the tone is often chopped and the rate of chopping may be increased as the climb rate increases, while during a descent the tone is not chopped. The vario is typically silent in still air or in lift which is weaker than the typical sink rate of the glider at [[Polar curve (aviation)|minimum sink]]. This audio signal allows the pilot to concentrate on the external view instead of having to watch the instruments, thus improving safety and also giving the pilot more opportunity to search for promising looking clouds and other signs of lift. A variometer that produces this type of audible tone is known as an "audio variometer".
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| Advanced electronic variometers in gliders can present other information to the pilot from [[global positioning system|GPS]] receivers. The display can thus show the bearing, distance and height required to reach an objective. In cruise mode (used in straight flight), the vario can also give an audible indication of the correct speed to fly depending on whether the air is rising or sinking. The pilot merely has to input the estimated [[Paul MacCready|MacCready]] setting, which is the expected rate of climb in the next acceptable thermal.
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| There is an increasing trend for advanced variometers in gliders towards flight computers (with variometer indications) which can also present information such as controlled airspace, lists of turnpoints and even collision warnings. Some will also store positional GPS data during the flight for later analysis.
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| ==Radio controlled soaring==
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| Variometers are also used in [[radio control]]led gliders. Typically it takes the form of a radio [[transmitter]] in the plane, and a [[Receiver (radio)|receiver]] held by the pilot on the ground. Depending on the design, the receiver may give the pilot the current altitude of the plane (an [[altimeter]]) and some sort of display that indicates if the plane is gaining or losing altitude—often via a tone just like in full scale gliders. Other forms of [[telemetry]] may also be provided by the system, giving things such as airspeed and battery voltage. Varios used in radio controlled planes may or may not feature total energy compensation (the better/more expensive ones generally do.)
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| Variometers are strictly optional for R/C glider use—a skilled pilot can generally determine if their plane is going up or down via visual cues alone, and so the use of a variometer is often seen as a `crutch', as a replacement for skill, and many pilots prefer not to use them at all, as the tone can be distracting, and the (usually small) amount of weight added to the plane does affect performance. The use of variometers is prohibited in R/C soaring [[competition|contests]] while permitted in others.
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| Perhaps the most popular brands of R/C variometers are the Picolario and the Pitlab SkyAssistant.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Hang gliding]]
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| *[[Paragliding]]
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| *[[Speed to fly]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| ==Bibliography==
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| [[File:Total Energy Compensators.pdf|thumb|A Simple Total Energy Sensor, NASA TM X-73928, March 1976]]
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| {{Flight instruments}}
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| {{Aircraft components}}
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| [[Category:Avionics]]
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| [[Category:Aircraft instruments]]
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| [[Category:Measuring instruments]]
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| [[Category:Gliding]]
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