Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] Airpath compass

> If the GPS system goes down, getting lost is the least of your problems. I > can think of only two scenarios - hostile action (probably nuclear war) or a > Carrington event. In any case over the next few years we will be talking > around 100 GNSS satellites from several independent systems. G

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] Airpath compass

> > In any case, the presence of the standby compass did what for you? Absolutely nothing. The latest PC-12’s no longer have one. There are multiple electronic standby units already. Which is me agreeing with you. Simon ___ Aus-soaring mailing list

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] Airpath compass

> So the GPS system didn't go down, just one sat providing SBAS and you could > have fixed it on the fly by turning off SBAS in the receiver. > No, you couldn’t - because the cause of the GPS failure was not apparent in flight. It took Honeywell a week to work it out. And they were not dawdli

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] DIana 2

“What he said” - I’m curious about that too. Brand, $$, availability, and (importantly, also) size? My long term dream is to throw the Rotax 914F out of my Stemme and replace it with batteries and an electric motor, and if a combination of both existed that had roughly the same total mass, th

Re: [Aus-soaring] Pete Cesco on TV

Derek, As it happened, I landed at Waikerie (in my Stemme - its flying again after a long hiatus), on the day after this happened (i.e. yesterday). I turned up there for reasons quite unrelated to the accident - and spoke to some of the people who had witnessed the accident (again, as a side ef

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

Mercy sakes. You guys are going to run me out of popcorn soon. ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Comparing accident rates

Hey Gentlemen! (and at this point I am using the term increasingly loosely) Can I gently suggest we might have whipped this topic hard enough at this point, and that none of you are interested in being sympathetic to the views of the others sufficiently for this conversation to have any real cha

Re: [Aus-soaring] skyboard

… always easy to tell - its when the description says ‘not a fake’. > On 15 Apr 2016, at 7:37 AM, Derek Ruddock wrote: > > fake > > From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf > Of Mike Borgelt > Sent: Friday, 15 April 2016 7:13 AM > To: Discussion of issues

Re: [Aus-soaring] unsubscribe

Bob, Please click here: http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > On 15 May 2016, at 4:57 PM, Bob Ward wrote: > > Bob Ward > ___ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <