How do you know the angle of your drop

I'm trying to build an Eurofighter but don't know how to make sure the drop is 97*[:I], it would be useful on other coasters too. So how do you know?

Most people that list the angle of their drops are using elementary, but you can get a rough estimate of the drop angle using the grid in the NL editor and some simple trig, if you know how to do that.

trig is the answer. If you split up the drop segment so that there is a vertex at the maximum angle of descent, you can then double-click the vertex, revealing the coordinates of the handles, and then use trig to figure out the angle.

Use Ahg, and it will tell you the end angle.

^ Not always, it sometimes does not really work for me anymore (the tilt also does not work) but I no what Im doing

put a small protractor up to the screen - easy, no thinking needed

^ Well then you could be off by a 1/2 of a degree--could be very bad

[A7]

Select the steepest angle and save it as an element. Open it up in Purg and check out the slp-O: ? in the 'data' section. Thats what I always do and it seems to be very accurate.

Yep AHG or purg are the way to go to calculate slopes as accurately as possible.

I just use a side profile image of the drop, open it in TheGimp and use the angle measurer.

[hyyyper]

make sure you have a node on the max angle

tan-1((horizontal distance between controlpoints)/(vertical distance between control points))