At 09:25 PM 22/03/2012, you wrote:
On 22/03/2012, at 19:19, Robert Hart
<<mailto:ha...@interweft.com.au>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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Yes Mark,
That was rather the point. Robert missed it completely.
Sanctimonious blather about safety doesn't cut it when you are
prepared to tolerate safety aids that don't work properly (or
inexperienced, well meaning, bumbling amateurs with little to no
formal training actively encouraged by the system to pretend to be
acting as "flight instructors").
As you said, it isn't rocket science.
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring
instrumentation since 1978
www.borgeltinstruments.com
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