New Butterfly Vario

On Feb 16, 3:38*pm, Sean Fidler wrote:
No. *I guess it is that he should not have one. *Brilliant.

Nor a smart phone. *That dirty cheater...

You think instrumentation is the solution to IMC in a CB? Or not?
Pick one. No evasions. Pick one.

Evan Ludeman / T8

On 2/15/2012 3:30 PM, Sean Fidler wrote:
Please read Kempton Izuno's article (2005) "Into the Bowels of Darkness" on page 12 of the link below or in the following copied text.

Everybody knows this can happen and has happened, but not in USA
contests. Contests are the issue here.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

VG post by Andy Gough.
This debate has been going on since the '60s!
AH s and T and S had to be removed for constests outside
the UK ( and Yugoslavia etc) but then the Bohli compass appeared
which confused the issue.

I personally proved to myself that I could manage for a while
using a COOK compass, predecessor of the Bohli.
Cloud climb with only ASI and vario! Wow.
I would not try that in a modern ship.

The GPS record should take care of transgressions, but
wave either lee o thermal ,poses a problem.

John Firth

Whatever. Time to go flying. Moving on.