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sidsel.svein(at)oslo.onli
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 Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:49 am Post subject: SV: Air-to-air comm radio |
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Frans,
Glad you enjoyed flying in Norway, and I understand that your encounter with
the annual Voss Extreme Week was rather challenging! One of the parachute
jump planes was LN-JMP, I assume, which normally is stationed at my summer
base, ENJB. It's a DHC-6-200 Twin Otter, manufactured in 1968. It needs
shorter runway to lift off with a full load of parachutists then I need with
my Europa (now, what does that say about my weight?!), and even less for
landing.
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I will check further into this
matter based on what you wrote (and welcome others on this forum to chime
in). I'd hate to replace the Garmin 250XL I now have, because it has a nice
satnav built into it as a standby to my Garmin 496. Right now, I have two
comments:
- The Archer antenna is not omnidirectional for reception, I think. On a
different flight down to Cannes earlier this summer, I called up Lyon about
35 NM out. I could barely hear their reply heading straight for them, but
when changing heading 30 degrees I received at about 3. Closer in, all was
well. Same thing flying towards Denmark on another occasion, they heard me
5 but I could not copy their reply.
- One set with one main and one secondary receiving frequency solves the
air-to-air (and ATIS, etc), but not the spare radio issue. Maybe with
today's technology a radio from one of the major suppliers simply does not
fail?? Anyone with any experience here?? When I took my PPL, the Cessna
172 had IFR equipment with a two-stack Bendix comm system integrated in such
a way that you could use both radios for simultaneous reception but only one
(selectable) for transmitting, and you could switch either one on/off.
Guess something like that is very expensive.
Svein
LN-SKJ
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frans(at)privatepilots.nl
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:55 am Post subject: SV: Air-to-air comm radio |
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On 07/07/2010 03:48 PM, Sidsel & Svein Johnsen wrote:
| Quote: | Glad you enjoyed flying in Norway, and I understand that your encounter with
the annual Voss Extreme Week was rather challenging!
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We would normally have circled around the field at a safe altitude, to
determine what would be the best path down the Fjords, but the sky was
filled with para's, ATC was a bit nervous about our presence there, so
we had to approach by GPS with the field out of sight most of the time.
| Quote: | One of the parachute
jump planes was LN-JMP, I assume,
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No, one was a German registered plane, the other one an Italic
registered plane. The German one was a twin engine, the Italic one was a
huge single engine. That one landed extremely short, using its
reversible prop, loaded up the para's, and didn't even bother to taxi
back to the beginning of the runway but took off right where it stopped
after landing. This went on and on. It was quite a fascinating sight.
We just stayed there for a couple of hours, made a tour over the Fjords,
as the weather in that area was only suitable for us for just one day.
Most of the time we stayed at Lunde and made a few trips from there. We
hoped to be able to travel further up North, but rain kept creeping in
all the time at the North. Weather was great in Lunde though.
| Quote: | - One set with one main and one secondary receiving frequency solves the
air-to-air (and ATIS, etc), but not the spare radio issue.
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That's right. I have a handheld radio for that, with a converter to
connect it to the headset, just for emergencies. I assume that the main
radio will not likely fail though.
Frans
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