Steven P. McNicoll asks:

How does a handheld radio make you as safe as everyone else?

Many folks (I'm not necessarily one of them) believe that being in radio
contact with other aircraft in a relatively confined airspace is a key
factor in the safety of all of those aircraft. With the handheld, the
aircraft without the electrical system can still be in radio contact.
If you believe that this is a factor in safety, then the radio will get
you functional equivalency with the other aircraft that have built in
radios running off of their electrical system, which the aircraft in
question doesn't have.

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Marc J. Zeitlin
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