Glider Crash - Minden?

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.).
Remove 'ic' to reply.


'Ramy' wrote in message
oups.com...

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

Derek Copeland wrote:

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, on how many of your best days of the year could you tell the
difference with a tiny external 1030-1090 MHz antenna? Yes, it's
expensive, but let's not get silly about performance degradation.

Not keeping the pieces of the glider flying in close formation will
degrade your personal performance considerably.


Jack