battery power
Fuji wotsit
Cloggies are a bunch of light weights! Have any Dutch pilot done 1,00km in the Netherlands? There are few ridges, no mountain waves and they are limited to thermals only. Few glider pilots fly long cross countries in the Netherlands and many are forced into Germany to fly sensible cross countries, thus no need to run transponders for lengthy periods. The Amsterdam TMA is over large and has an unacceptably low base, this is environmental vandalism at its worst and excludes much of the flying activity in the local area. Last Sunday one UK glider pilot was airborne 10 hr 50 min (he is working on flying faster next time!) Do the sums, 1.6 AH for 11 hrs exceeds his battery power by over 40 %.
Besides the cloggies have been banned from using their transponders near the TMA
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