Tom Cook wrote: > Side issue, Venturis;;; With all the concern about C and > CD vs D models, if you have a LSA and intend to keep it > that way , you can not fly night or IFR on a LSA license. > Why add the drag of a venturi and the weight of two gyros > if you can"t use them??? Tom,
That's a good point, except . . . Once, in my younger and bolder days (as opposed to my older and wiser days), I was about 30 miles from home, staying low under clouds, with more than three miles slant visibility due to haze. There was reason to think the haze and visibility were the same at my altitude (low) as slant to the ground. That's when I saw clouds whipping by my window. My immediate 180° turn got me back safely, but before I completed that turn, while still in a bank, I passed into one of those little fluffies and was on the gyros. A couple of other times, I've flown in basically clear days with haze such that the only visual referents were the slant down to the ground and blue sky at a slant above. One of those had seven miles visibility. But, I reflected, I could have blundered into a cloud with scarcely any warning. There's some smarts in avoiding those situations. And, there's some smarts in having at least one gyro instrument. Personally, I'd rather NOT have a venturi but have either an electric turn and bank or one of the new solid-state artificial horizons. Ed
