Same here. I am happy with my TruTrak although I never needed to use it and
hope I wouldn't. Just like my parachute. Treat it the same as last resort
and you will be safer. If you get one, I recommend before permanently
installing it to connect it to a 9v battery and go up in a 2 seater under
the hood with an instructor to get the feel of it. You'll find out, as I
did, that you can keep the wings level and even level off from a bank using
the TruTrak alone. Well worth the $450 IMHO.

Ramy

"Greg Arnold" wrote in message
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Matt Herron Jr. wrote:

Stefan said:
"No, TruTrak does *not* give you a bank angle. It gives you a turn
rate.
Relying on an instrument without fully understandiing it is what I call

gambling. "

Would this instrument then not be useful for keeping the wings level in
clouds? I can imagine in uncoordinated flight, like a forward slip,
the wings would be banked, but the turnrate would be zero...

I have a TruTrak, and it is technically true that it measures turning
rather than bank angle. However, given that you turn by banking the
glider, you would think it would do a good job of measuring bank angle.
And, in fact, it does.


Matt