Re: ECM Availability

[Garfield Willis <garwillis@msn.com>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:26:28 -0400, Len Sabatine <sabatine@epix.net>
wrote:

>   Hey Dood , Limp / Walk Home mode sounds really risky @ Alt of 5000 ft.
>   Maybe get spare Ecm which presents a shute for "Backup" Hmmm ?
>   Mergency landing in those trees , eeeek.

Limp/Walk Home is even MORE risky at 1000ft. Altitude if your FRIEND.
At 5k ft, you have a little bit of glide and manuevering/recon time;
at 1000ft, you're landing vewy vewy soon. And yes, some of the smaller
light planes DO have a chute! Yes, for the whole bloody plane, even.
Problem again is, you need altitude for safe deployment. Just all
around better to "keep it up"; nice that these days we HAVE the
technology. Think of backup electrics as Viagra for your airplane. :)

Kiinda curious how much redundancy is used in road-racing these days?
Anyone seen any examples of it showing up?

Gar


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