Vaughn writes
Compared to most other things in aviation, portable radios are cheap.

Perhaps. But though I don't know why they aren't in common usage in our
club fleet (in either the single or two-seaters) I don't think it's an
issue of cost. But neither do I think they're missed on a day to day
basis.

Perhaps things might be different if we were primarily an aerotow site
or we had to share the airfield or otherwise manage a high traffic to
space ratio? But as it is, aerotow is the exception rather than the rule
and we have the luxury of a large airfield all to ourselves

Anyway, in token gesture to topic, I only raised the matter as an
example of when aerotow signals might get more use, but even then I'm
only guessing as I can count the number of aerotows I've taken on the
fingers of one thumb. And that was from a different site and we did use
a portable radio to co-ordinate!

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Bill Gribble
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