Jay Honeck wrote:
I wonder why no aircraft manufacturers or mod manufacturers have come up
with a nice, big, XMIT light mounted dead center on the panel.


Our year-old Narco 810+R (a digital flip-flop slide-in replacement for the
venerable Narco 120 com radios) has exactly that.

I routinely check to see if I'm transmitting when I've pushed the PTT.

Now, of course, I'm going to be checking it all the time! :-)

My SL40 has a transmit light, not very bright but it's there. More
importantly it also has a time out timer. After about 45-60 seconds the
transmitter simply turns off and you go back to receiving, even with the
mic button held down.