RE: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-28 Thread John Derstine
The Sky panel can do the same thing with two sensitivity settings (PPM and PCM), but beyond that they also can supply an antenna for your scanner to find the airplane via signal strength. I don’t think it is available in a U.S. version yet, (depending on the scanner type used). I have to ask Dean

Re: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-27 Thread James V. Bacus
That's a cool story, I hadn't heard that before. The other thing the Picolario can do is if you have a PCM system, it can be set up to transmit Attention! anytime your system goes into fail-safe or fail-hold. At 11:28 AM 8/27/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Picolario is more than meets the

Re: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-27 Thread James V. Bacus
Actually, I stated that wrong, it won't say attention! but will give you an announcement that you didn't initiate, here is how you do it... (From the Picolario user manual, which is online) Failsafe detection with PCM receiver They have a predefined setting. You can use the requested altitude

Re: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-27 Thread Bill Swingle
DIRECTIONAL!! Anything that transmits a signal from the plane and could be received directionally would be priceless. Bill Swingle RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe

RE: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-27 Thread KC
Hopefully you'll be able to open this link. The ESL has been using this system for a long time and it seems expensive - until the first time you need one. http://forums.flyesl.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=95 Kerry DIRECTIONAL!! Anything that transmits a signal from the plane and could be

Re: [RCSE] Loss of airplane, and - how to find it

2004-08-27 Thread Peter
More Piccolario stories, I did loss my 2m Duck a week ago. With the Piccolario reporting, I was going in. As the plane got closer to the ground (full crow) the voice became more distorted. On the ground It reported 4 feet. I lost the signal temporally walking closer to the plane. This is a good