We have the Skylaunch telemetry installed in one of our ships as a
trial, and have found it to be a very useful tool for the winch
driver. The winch cab display "lights up" at about the time of
rotation and a quick scan of the glider airspeed is very useful in
assessing the airspeed trend during the climb. It is particularly
useful as the glider begins the round out as an airspeed cue during
the reduction in line tension. The low cost makes this a very nice
innovation and we plan to install the units in our other club gliders.

Bob


On Jul 27, 1:45�pm, Derek Copeland wrote:
Skylaunch sell a telemetry system called 'Launch Assistant' which relays
the actual airspeed of the glider to an LCD display mounted somewhere in
the view of the driver. It costs a few hundred dollars in total. See:

http://www.skylaunchuk.com/

Derek Copeland

At 16:49 27 July 2009, Chris Nicholas wrote:





At Feshiebridge, Scotland, AIUI they developed telemetry for
indicating glider airspeed to the winch driver, and it was said to
work very well. IIRC, it did not send an airspeed number in knots, but
rather an indication of too slow, a bit slow, OK, a bit fast, or too
fast (or something like that) which is what the winch driver really
needs to know, they believed. The unit in the glider was calibrated
for the glider type.

It needs somebody with first hand experience of it to tell more, and I
don=92t know if it has been kept going.

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