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Jack wrote:
On 3/12/04 2:05 PM, in article 40521816$1@darkstar, "Mark James Boyd"
wrote:

Where's the stall warning horn?

On the Cessna, where it belongs. Don't even think about putting one in a
sailplane.

Soaring ought to be about flying the aircraft, not just monitoring the
government-mandated distractions. The thing would either be activated during
most thermaling, or have such a close tolerance as to give no useful warning
to those who would most need it -- and they are expensive. Would you
recommend flashing lights on the panel, a speaker tone to compete with the
vario, or both? Perhaps you would also like to incorporate a stick-shaker?

Who said anything about the gubmint? And what would I want
with a vario during the landing phase, off-field or not?
If I've got the gear down and the spoilers out, I'd be
playing the fool to try using the vario for anything...

Have the vario shut itself off and let the stall warning
buzzer on...

Expensive? I couldn't comment on that...And are the fatal accidents
so rare as to make this idea pointless? Perhaps...

As far as spoilers and flaps changing the stall speed, I suppose that's
glider dependent on how much. And as far as bugs, again I
don't know how far off the normal stall speed you'd see...
Maybe it's negligible, maybe not. Dunno...


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Mark Boyd
Avenal, California, USA