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.... and for flying I have
a green LED on my mike boom that I can activate with my lip or keep on with a switch. Where did you get that and what is it called? That sounds great! Also someone used to make a light on a lanyard that could be worn around your neck...anyone know where you can still buy these? |
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message = m... =20 "Snowbird" wrote in message = om... =20 Even when there isn't an authorized VOR checkpoint one can often pick up a radial somewhere on the airport, or track the localizer on takeoff or something. =20 Tracking the localizer won't tell you anything about VOR errors. =20 =20 It could, if the VOR happened to be on the airport. ---JRC--- |
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Snowbird,
Sorry for the delay in answering. would you mind expanding a bit upon what you like about TPAS and in what circs you find it "don't leave home w/out it" useful? Yes, I fly in Europe. Well, when the owner of the aircraft I fly (a Tobago) first suggested we get one, I thought: "Who needs this?" After having flown with it for a year I would say it is extremely cheap insurance, for somewhere between 600 and 1200 $. It gives you an extra warning to look outside and scan for traffic - which is very useful if your plane has a lot of gagdets like our Garmin 430. As you know, it will only say that something is out there somewhere (lately, also at which altitude), but no direction to look at. That, we found, is no problem at all - at least not a problem worth investing another 10k $ or so, which is the price of azimuth-capable systems. You just look outside and normally find the traffic real soon - if it is yet close enough for visual ID. As you also know, it will not alert to gliders or other traffic without a transponder. The fact that the transponder has to be interrogated is not a problem here - Europe has either radar coverage or enough airliners overhead with TCAS triggering transponders. Gliders and #*?\&% idiots with their transponder switched off are a problem. So you still have to scan for traffic. But the unit wakes you up. As for overload in high traffic areas: With the unit we have, you can set it to only voice alert really close traffic. That works quite well. And in a busy traffic pattern, I normally switch the voice alert off. Does that make the unit not worth having? Of course not! So, basically, it is a great and cost-efficient tool - and it has made me look outside a lot at times when I had become complacent about traffic scanning. Did it actually prevent me from hitting someone? Well, the big-sky-principle still holds, but it is nicer to know if someone is out there. Yes, as Thierry mentions elsewhere, we liked the unit so much that we decided to offer it in our little pilot shop here. But I was less than convinced before I actually flew with the unit. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message om...
"Snowbird" wrote in message om... Even when there isn't an authorized VOR checkpoint one can often pick up a radial somewhere on the airport, or track the localizer on takeoff or something. Tracking the localizer won't tell you anything about VOR errors. Depends upon the source of the error. It is true it will not tell you whether the OBS is aligned within 4 degrees (or indeed 13 or any number) It wil give information about other NAV/OBS errors. When my OBS have failed to give full-scale deflection at the appropriate deviation, this occurs with both localizer and VOR. If there's a problem with the splitter, it's evident. If one NAV radio isn't receiving properly, it's evident. Regards, Sydney |
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"John R. Copeland" wrote in message ...
Tracking the localizer won't tell you anything about VOR errors. It could, if the VOR happened to be on the airport. I did mean localizer, not VOR. But I wasn't specific or clear enough about what I meant. See other post. Regards, Sydney |
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In article , Greg
wrote: Where did you get that and what is it called? That sounds great! Also someone used to make a light on a lanyard that could be worn around your neck...anyone know where you can still buy these? www.campmor.com CMG Infinity Light $12.95 |
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