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

[GordySoar]

The Picolario is more than meets the eye or ear.   While it does have altitude reporting, vario and battery voltage reporting and some memory functions as well, it has one feature that is not as well understood.   Thats its 'glitch' warning system.   When a glitch happens, the girl reports "attention!".   When a sailplane was lost quite aways off in a corn field last Nats, Hartmut used that warning system to home in on the sailplane really quickly.  It was not where witnesses saw it go down by the way.   He simply began by retracting the TX antenna then rotating his body to get glitch reports, that gave him a crude vector to start out the search, he continued to retract the antenna until they virtually walked up to the plane buried deep in the corn.  (deep enough that an aerial search didn't see the plane from the report that I heard). Even if the details of that search weren't accurate, the fact is that Hartmut found the plane using the glitch reporting capability of the Picolario. Contact Hartmut for the real info on this proceedure and hope you never need to use it! [EMAIL PROTECTED]   and by the way you can also get altitude, vario and voltage...is it too expensive for you now? http://www.picolario-usa.com/2.%20Ebene%20Picolario/Picolario1_page.htm Gordy :-)