On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:17:23 -0600, "Bill Daniels"
wrote:


This amazes me. Electricity not reliable? I know this is "conventional
wisdom" but, I have never had an electronic device fail in flight but many,
many mechanical instruments have failed me.

Glad that you never had a problem.
I have lost count of the numbers where my clubs glider's batteries
were forgotten to charge after flight or ran out of energy because
they had reached their service life...

Not to mention more than a couple of GPS failures over the years...

Of course - there have been more than a couple of mechanical (Winter)
altimeter failures, too - but at least the altimeter didn't stop
working at all but only lost precision.


It's pretty impossible to convince me of the superiority of something
that needs to be charged as long as more than one owner is involved.
This includes a backup battery. vbg



Bye
Andreas