Transponders

Kirk Stant wrote:

As I see it (and this is for the Western US, and may not apply in NZ
or the UK, etc) there are really only two reasons for not carrying a
transponder: No place to put it in the glider (I've been trying to
figure out where to install one in my LS6 (small panel), it will take
a complete redo of the panel to squeeze it in; and cost - as soon as I
win the lottery (or get REALLY scared by an airliner) I will probably
get one.

Kirk makes some good points. Let me suggest one way to talk yourself
(not Kirk specifically, but pilots in general) past the hurdle of cost :
think of it as "insurance", and compare it to the cost of insuring your
glider. For a lot of people, it's $900+, which is about half the cost of
a transponder installation. When I look at it that way, I'm buying many
years of "insurance" for a one-time fee that is two years of hull insurance.


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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA