On 22/03/2012, at 19:19, Robert Hart <ha...@interweft.com.au> wrote:
> I have experienced far too many radio problems in club gliders (and tugs) to
> give up the "whole glider as semaphore" method as a necessary fall back. If
> we are about safety - and we are - we need to make sure that we cover known
> problems (and radio in gliders/tugs is a known problem).
That's something I can't work out.
Radios aren't rocket science. With modern digital radio systems, and high
capacity batteries, there's no valid engineering reason why they can't work
fantastically all the time.
Yet you're right: so many gliders have stupendously shitty radio systems, and
it's just accepted as normal.
Why is that?
- mark
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