Updated SPOT web site

On Mar 24, 5:40*pm, wrote:
On Mar 24, 8:13*pm, Steve Koerner wrote:

Spotis a pretty cool gadget except that its buttonology sucks. *To
deal with that, I created a concise abstract of theSpotfacts and
instructions that prints onto a 3"X5" card to be conveniently carried
in the cockpit. *I suspect this could be useful to otherSpot
owners. * Download at:www.wingrigger.com/wingrigger4_004.htm

Steve Koerner
GW

Looks good, but I have to say theSpotmounted to the back of the
headrest scares me. I wouldn't want it hitting my head at 100kts if I
crash.

My Spot is working just fine strapped to the parachute near the
shoulder, this way it will stay with me if I bail. It does occasionly
missing a transmission but I guess this is happening when thermaling
steep.

Ramy

On Apr 18, 4:37 pm, Ramy wrote:
On Mar 24, 5:40 pm, wrote:

On Mar 24, 8:13 pm, Steve Koerner wrote:

Spotis a pretty cool gadget except that its buttonology sucks. To
deal with that, I created a concise abstract of theSpotfacts and
instructions that prints onto a 3"X5" card to be conveniently carried
in the cockpit. I suspect this could be useful to otherSpot
owners. Download at:www.wingrigger.com/wingrigger4_004.htm

Steve Koerner
GW

Looks good, but I have to say theSpotmounted to the back of the
headrest scares me. I wouldn't want it hitting my head at 100kts if I
crash.

My Spot is working just fine strapped to the parachute near the
shoulder, this way it will stay with me if I bail. It does occasionly
missing a transmission but I guess this is happening when thermaling
steep.

Ramy

I'd honesty prefer you had the SPOT mounted on the glider. Instead of
worrying finding about a missing pilot in a parachute we could be
salvaging a nice ASW-27 instrument panel :-)

Darryl

On Apr 18, 4:37*pm, Ramy wrote:
On Mar 24, 5:40*pm, wrote:

On Mar 24, 8:13*pm, Steve Koerner wrote:

Spotis a pretty cool gadget except that its buttonology sucks. *To
deal with that, I created a concise abstract of theSpotfacts and
instructions that prints onto a 3"X5" card to be conveniently carried
in the cockpit. *I suspect this could be useful to otherSpot
owners. * Download at:www.wingrigger.com/wingrigger4_004.htm

Steve Koerner
GW

Looks good, but I have to say theSpotmounted to the back of the
headrest scares me. I wouldn't want it hitting my head at 100kts if I
crash.

My Spot is working just fine strapped to the parachute near the
shoulder, this way it will stay with me if I bail. It does occasionly
missing a transmission but I guess this is happening when thermaling
steep.

Ramy

Ramy: I thermal steep too; But I have consistently zero misses with
my mounting location. That means that in reverse ELT operation, my
searchers can be confident that I am somewhere within approx 800
square mile area. That is quite a lot of territory to search. But
in your case, if your searchers don't find you in the first couple
days, wouldn't they be compelled to expand the search area to 3200
square miles? Maybe strapped to your parachute really isn't as good?

John Dow: The mounting location is very nearly touching the back of my
head. I agree that the unit will easily break free of its mounting
but there is no opportunity for a relative velocity to become
established. If it were further aft, that would be a definite
concern.

Steve Koerner GW

I think I should clarify my point: I have no objection to parachute
mount; that's a good idea. I may experiment with that myself. But,
if you are missing some transmissions, that's bad. Missing some now
and then greatly impacts usefullness of the reverse ELT
functionality. I have now demonstrated that you do not have to miss
any (at least not in AZ).

Steve Koerner GW

An update: Now after flying for a week in Southern California, I saw
about 15% of the tracking messages were lost there compared to no lost
messages in Central Arizona. So, the performance is very much
geographically dependent. I guess that is not teribly surprising
since the SPOT website does show a coverage map.

Steve Koerner GW

On Apr 28, 12:27*pm, Steve Koerner wrote:
An update: *Now after flying for a week in Southern California, I saw
about 15% of the tracking messages were lost there compared to no lost
messages in Central Arizona. *So, the performance is very much
geographically dependent. *I guess that is not teribly surprising
since the SPOT website does show a coverage map.

Steve Koerner GW

Thanks for the update. This is about the same percentage of drops I
see, so it is not due to the spot location on my parachute then.

Ramy