Hand Held Radios (Com + Nav)and GPS...Help?

That's not the cleverest plan in the world, is it? Some of the data is ten
years old, and some was done last week.

Ten years ago, it WAS 3% a day. Five years ago, it got down to 2, and now it is
1 and still dropping.

Instead of using the highest, why not use the current data?

Jim



john smith
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-
-I have gone to different sites and read different values, so I use the
-highest.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

Jim Weir wrote:
Instead of using the highest, why not use the current data?

So I can more easily figure out if I need to recharge. ;-))

The rechargable was a major reason for switching from a Sporty's to
the Yaseu (aka Vertex) for me.

My handheld is my only radio, so buying AA batts was a real drain for
me. By the same token, I know that if I'm going to be flying for a
couple of hours, I probably should charge up the radio.

For a backup radio, it would be a more difficult call. Why not
recharge on the first day of every month?

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:34:24 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:



NiMH have a self-discharge rate of 3-5% per day. If you are going on
extended trips, purchase an alkaline battery pack.

You need to google about that to see for yourself. They self discharge at
slightly over 1% per day. Given the fact that they have a higher capacity
than alkaline, they will still have more capacity left over, even
considering self discharge, than alkalines for at least two or three weeks.

- I am the type of person to prepare by charging things often, so it is
ablsolutely no problem for me. If you do prepare for a long trip by
charging, you have around two times the capacity than alkaline, so where is
the down side? Add to that a charger to run off of ship's power, and you
can go long, indefinitely.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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well ill throw in my $.02 even though im still technically a student. i
bought a Airmap 500 ($400 ebay) and am impressed w/ it. great on vfr flights
for double checking my checkpoints. think my cfi is debating on getting one
now. pretty easy to use too. although i need to get some tint for the screen
as its too bright at night. its well worth the money being $500 retail. the
HSI feature is great! and comes w/ all kinds of accesories in the box (yoke
mount dc adapter external antenna and mount map making software etc etc).
anyway i thought it was the best for the $500 price range after looking at
the few that are that inexpensive. may upgrade in the future once i get my
commercial certificate but for vfr its great. -Nick
"JJS" jschneider@REMOVE SOCKSpldi.net wrote in message
...
probably purchase the Airmap 500 or 1000 unless someone that owns one
of these units and doesn't like it changes my mind . It seems they

I may go with the Icom A5 and save a $100,
as in my experience, the nav feature on the IC-A22 has limited range
and usefulness, (at least with the supplied antenna).

I've been considering buying a handheld radio. A couple of weeks
ago in absolutely perfect weather, the radios in the FBO's plane
were being intermittant. Although no emergency, it helped me
decide I want a radio especially since I've started my IFR
training.

After some research, it was a toss up between the Vertex
with a few more gizmos and NiCd cells or the ICOM A5
with NiMH cells. Both were withing $30 or so from
various places since ICOM was offering a few
headset adapter for the A5 that was included with the Vertex.
Well I found LC Flight (www.lcflight.com) had the same
price as most other discount shops and was offering
a FREE alkaline battery pack for the A5. It came to $280
with the headset adapter from ICOM and the alkaline battery
case from LCFlight + 6 S/H. I haven't gotten it yet but it
will probably get here on Monday.

I ordered from them once before and they were quite on
par with Sportys. I ended up dealing with them more than
I wanted to as the DC 10-60's they sent to me had a very
short cable between the two ear cups so they couldn't
be extended far enough. I ended up sending it back for a refund
minus the shipping and was minimal hassle.

(and no, I do not have any affiliation with them).

Gerald