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3rd Feb 2014, 10:25

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ShyTorque

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A Radalt can only work accurately if the aerials are pointing to the ground. Extreme bank and pitch angles will affect the reading, aerobatics render it useless.

The Radalts I've been used to only read to 2500 feet.

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