Totally agree about 6 seconds for speed to build up but disagree about radio reliability. In this day and age there is zero reason a radio in the glider should not be as reliable as the home TV, the car radio of the wifi in the house. I often operate in controlled airspace (D and C) and never a problem - almost always 5 occasionally 4.
If you have a Microair playing up then I can tell you how to fix up 95% of the microair problems over the phone and job will take 10 minutes and you need no skills. It is a matter of winding the little pots on the side of radio back and forward many times and return to original spot and bingo the radio bursts into life for the next 9 months. It is 7 years since I sold a Microair having chosen to sell Xcom which have no such pots - it is done in software on the front face. This method also works with Becker 3201 intercoms. Ian McPhee PS If you have one of those early boom mics of mine (9mmdia and goes floppy) I will sort you out with a new one at a real good price. Have made over 2300mics so far and I do not want to hear of bad reports on those first 350 boom mics. On 28 May 2010 12:57, Texler, Michael <michael.tex...@health.wa.gov.au>wrote: > > >Isn't radio just the least unreliable method? > > Radios are more likely to fail than controls, I would trust my control > linkages more than the radio. > > >Wing waggling at speeds close to the stall is likely to cause more > exciting problems than a dud radio. > > I certainly hope no-one has let their speed drop that far and remained > on the wire. > If speed is slow on the launch, you should lower the nose prior to > signalling. > The thing that kills people on wire launching is spinning off the wire > (i.e. not having enough airspeed prior to turning after a cable break). > It takes up to six seconds from when the cable breaks to gaining safe > speed after nosing over. > > ______________________________ _________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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