"nafod40" wrote in message
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Bill Daniels wrote:


You can fly with just the turn needle and ASI if you learn to control
airspeed trends.

I'm being flip here a little bit, but I wonder if you couldn't
manufacture an "emergency gyro" that would be spun up like a top by
battery, and would spin for enough minutes to hold an attitude. Clamp it
onto the dash and start descending.


Spinning gyros are passe.
Look at: http://www.pcflightsystems.com/egyro.html
or: http://www.icarusinstruments.com/microEFIS.html

Bill Daniels