Gary, modern ejection seats have attitude sensing
systems and you can eject inverted. The seats are
rocket powered and fly the seat around to go up.
The Yak 38 had an automatic seat probaly without
attitude sensing. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-38
Mike
At 12:51 PM
>>the importance of a good compass
A good compass, properly compensated, with a pilot who understands
variation and deviation…… flying over areas in the country without
significant magnetic anomalies.
I may be not 100% confident with GPS but I am a lot less confident in
any glider compass I have
>>If the GPS system goes down, getting lost is the least of your problems.
I have been in two or three GPS failure events. Two of which was the
US invading some hot country and the other appeared to be caused by a
lightening storm. This was actually while sailing offshore at night.
The rain was
On 18/08/2016 12:17 PM, Simon Hackett wrote:
One of those rare times that I pipe up on something here these days.
Here’s evidence of such a double failure in recent times, due to neither of
your scenarios, in a real aircraft with a lot of internal redundancy:
So now I know what a 'Carrington Event' is. Interesting.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Mike Borgelt <
mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote:
> Maybe he doesn't want to waste more money than absolutely necessary on an
> ancient requirement that should have been abolished more than ten
Maybe he doesn't want to waste more money than absolutely necessary
on an ancient requirement that should have been abolished more than
ten years ago?
It isn't as if it is going to get actually used or be useful.
How many people still carry a paper map? Without one the compass is
pointless
