They are still 2000 Euros or £1500 before fitting,
testing, licensing and Value Added Tax. You can buy
a decent airworthy wooden glider for far less than
that in the UK!

If any anti-collision device of about the size, cost
and power consumption of a small portable GPS unit
becomes available, then I might be prepared to buy
one, especially if it doesn't require an externally
mounted aerial that reduces glider performance.

Derek Copeland

At 11:30 01 September 2006, W.J. \bill\ Dean \u.K.\.
wrote:
All the transponders currently listed by Filser
http://www.filser.de/onlineshop/english/ are modes
A/C and S, and have
extended squitter; they all have an integral alticoder.
These are probably
the cheapest on the UK market http://www.lxavionics.co.uk/
.

I would be surprised if this is not true of other makes,
I am sure it soon
will be.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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'Ramy' wrote in message
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Thanks Glen. I am not aware of any transponder equiped
glider not using
mode C. Seems like once you go through the hassle
and cost of
installing a transponder, the encoder is the easy
part. Mode A sounds
almost useless, more confusing then not. A mode A
transponder could
signal an alert to any airline crusing at 30K above.
Which baffles me - Why aren't modern transponders
already including
internal encoder??

Ramy