Radio out- Would you fly?

"Jose" wrote

OSP? RSP?
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Jim in NC

OSP? RSP?

Optical separation procedures.
Radio separation protocol.

It was under my name (but above the sig separator.

Jose
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On 5 May 2006 08:54:01 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote in
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I'm at a new airport and didn't want to get a reputation
for recklessness

Have you considered purchasing a new battery for your handheld?

Just a thought. :-)

Larry Dighera wrote:

On 5 May 2006 08:54:01 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote in
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I'm at a new airport and didn't want to get a reputation
for recklessness

Have you considered purchasing a new battery for your handheld?

I thought I answered that elsewhere in the message you
quoted. The handheld didn't use batteries I could buy that
day. It was a choice between not flying because the radio
didn't work or flying without the radio. I asked here,
because I wondered if other pilots would consider it to be
reckless.

On 5 May 2006 12:38:01 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:

On 5 May 2006 08:54:01 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote in
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I'm at a new airport and didn't want to get a reputation
for recklessness

Have you considered purchasing a new battery for your handheld?

I thought I answered that elsewhere in the message you
quoted.

So you did:

Another question was why I didn't just buy batteries. The
handheld radio was wired into a portable intercom/radio
power system that used a lead acid rechargeable. The
handheld part worked, but it's impossible to hear outside of
the intercom. I actually carried a spare lead acid battery.
I thought they were both dead, but it later turned out to be
a damaged wire inside the portable system.

So it seems that investment in an adapter to permit you to plug your
headset into the handheld might be prudent if something similar should
occur in the future. Then all you'll need are AA batteries.

The handheld didn't use batteries I could buy that day.

On 4 May 2006 14:04:02 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote:

The situation:

The aircraft was originally certified without an electrical

system. It's usually flown with a handheld radio powered by
a battery. The battery is dead. The airport is
non-towered. The wind is nearly 90 degrees crosswind. You
haven't been able to fly in 4 weeks, and if you don't fly

There are several "It all depends" and how much traffic, what kind of
traffic and if the winds change would your have to go to another
airport and is there one nearby that can handle NORDO traffic?

But basically I'd even fly the Deb.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

today, you won't be able to get in the air for at least
another week.

Would you fly?

"Robert Tenet" wrote in message


The aircraft was originally certified without an electrical
system. It's usually flown with a handheld radio powered by
a battery. The battery is dead. The airport is
non-towered. The wind is nearly 90 degrees crosswind. You
haven't been able to fly in 4 weeks, and if you don't fly
today, you won't be able to get in the air for at least
another week.

Would you fly?

At my airport? No - but not due to the conditions you described.
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On 4 May 2006 14:04:02 -0500, Robert Tenet wrote:

Would you fly?

Probably. I did most of my flying without a radio, but bought a
handheld after a twin with a student at the controls made a
straight-in approach to the home airport, which does all flight
training with NORDO Cubs. I figured that if there were imbecilic
instructors out there who'd let a student do that (and with the
instructor on board!), a radio was a wise tool.

The radio is pretty useless for transmissions, but it does tell me
what foolishness may be going on in the air around me ("Any traffic,
please advise"!) and the earphones are good for quelling engine noise.
So I keep it going whenever I'm flying. But I would fly without it,
just as I would fly without my GPS or even a full tank of gas, with
caution level raised accordingly.



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"Robert Tenet" wrote in message
...
The situation:

The aircraft was originally certified without an electrical
system. It's usually flown with a handheld radio powered by
a battery. The battery is dead. The airport is
non-towered. The wind is nearly 90 degrees crosswind. You
haven't been able to fly in 4 weeks, and if you don't fly
today, you won't be able to get in the air for at least
another week.

Would you fly?

If it was only to do "bumps and rounds" (learned that from my Brit
pals in the Royal Marines) about the home patch..., yeah, probably. But KIYK
(Inyokern, CA) is nestled deep into R-2508, snuggled right alongside R2505,
and just minutes from R-2506, not to mention a page full of MOAs. I would
NOT venture far from the patch without being able to communicate with
"Joshua."
Interestingly, the only time I've seen a military jet flying close
to my position was when I was driving on the highway -- he missed me by
about 200 feet high and a quarter-mile crossing right to left. It was back
in the days of the F-4 and I saw the smoky exhaust trail before I spotted
the airplane, so it must have been Air Force.

It was back in the days of the F-4 and I saw the smoky exhaust trail before I spotted
the airplane, so it must have been Air Force.

Coulda been Navy(?) The USAF didn't own the only smoke-emitting
Phantoms.