On 3/7/2014 12:17 PM, Steve Leonard wrote:
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Just a bit of advice. Do NOT get an airspeed indicator that has its max
range limit at your plane's redline. Why? Do you really know if you are
at redline or maybe 20 knots past it if your indicator hits a stop (either
visible or not) at your indicated redline?

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/br...30X01573&key=1

Willing to gamble your life on a couple of hundred dollars?

As UH says, FWIW.

Steve


Dsve Lawrence (PIC in the aforenoted NTSB report) wrote up the accident for
AW&ST (Aviation Week & Space Technology) and Soaring magazine (online archive
available). I know and have soared with Dave (former Libelle/ASW-20 owner),
and shared more than one post-camp-flight B.S. session with him. Good
pilot/person/guy. He has an extensive background in (manned and unmanned)
flight test, flown military aircraft, and IMO is very much a 'switched on'
pilot, with no obvious "I am God-personified" in his pilot attitude that I
ever sensed. Yet he was fortunate to not lose his life in this 'he screwed up'
accident. Human perfection isn't an option...

Also, "What Steve L. said."

Also also, FWIW...

Bob W.