From the link posted by somebody above, it shows it is an ASH25 EB28 – a 2-seat motor glider (fold-away engine) which has much bigger battery capacity than most gliders. “Electric power supply by two lead batteries, one in each inner wing. . . . 5 kg can be saved by using lithium-mangan-batteries in the fuselage instead of lead batteries in the inner wings.” [Sic]
See:
Binder aircraft- & engineconstruction | ASH 25 EB 28 | ASH 25 EB 28 for details if interested.
For the umpteenth time, yes, SOME gliders can have transponders, and SOME of those have fitted them. SOME OTHERS, like mine could physically have a transponder, but EASA at present prevents it.
AND A LOT OF GLIDERS cannot and never will have.
I can’t really believe ST does not understand, but I don’t know why he keeps hammering the point that SOME gliders have transponders, as if that means all could.
If I got a needle stuck in a groove saying SOME powered aircraft have BRS, TCAS, Autopilot, and two crew to look out, so all can, so why don’t you all do it - I suspect that he and others would soon get fed up.
As I am of having to remind people who keep hammering that some gliders can have transponders as if that means that all can.
And two transponding gliders have no communication to tell each other of impending collision – only ST etc. with TCAS, or those who also fit PCAS, could know. Flarm is better than that for glider/glider. It could be used for GA/glider. Why don’t they get Flarm as well as their other equipment?
Chris N.