Are you sure it was not 500ft?? MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Kurstjens" <p...@kurstjens.com>
To: "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'"
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Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [ Making retrieves easier??]
I can certify that a Nokia 6120 Next G phone survived a fall of 250 ft from
the window of a light aircraft onto a blacksoil paddock when being used as
a
camera.
Finding the so and so thing on the ground was another matter...
-----Original Message-----
From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net
[mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of DMcD
Sent: Monday, 9 March 2009 11:23 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] [ Making retrieves easier??]
Down where we are, the NextG network is extremely patchy and there is
a very good chance that if you outland, you will have no mobile
service. This is good for the retrieve crews (do such things exist
these days?) because they can sit in a bar with good coverage waiting
for a call instead of driving down the road.
Regrettably, the good old strong CDMA phones have been replaced by
pansy NextG ones which don't like being dropped. Because the standard
technique with the CDMA phones in places where there was no reception,
was to key in a message, press send, and chuck it up in the air as
high as you could. The message would normally get out OK.
We have found the in-car GPS systems work quite well for the pickup if
you walk around the paddock, find the access road and fwd this via
"aerophone" to the retrieve crew in the bar.
What does not work at all well is the trip back to the club since most
of these GPS systems have rubbish maps of the backroads. We've had
retrieve cars turn up in a very short time using Lat and Long, and
then get horribly lost for most of the night trying to get back to the
pub... sorry, club with the trailer.
D
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