M20J In-Wing Radar

[carusoam]

Full knock down, rudder out of the water?

Loss of control…

Sounds un fun…

-a-

[Pinecone]

Was doing the evening Annapolis race on a friend's boat.  A squall line came through.  One forty some footer doused their spinnaker, but the halyard jammed (probably a knot) with about 30 feet of halyard out.  Mast hit the water, stood up, wing caught, mast hit the water to the other side.  This happened about 5 cycles before someone was able to cut the halyard loose.

 

[A64Pilot]

10 hours ago, carusoam said:

Full knock down, rudder out of the water?

Loss of control…

Sounds un fun…

-a-

Not really, but Genoa was completely in the water, the concern is if it fills and the boat try’s to stand up you’ll break stays, chainplates or mast. But it didn’t fill

Boat took care of herself, headed up into the wind all by herself and stood up. I was a passenger, first and only knock down. Caught me completely off guard.

Biggest problem was the 88 lb Rocna wasn’t secured as well as it should have and came loose held by the chain and swung around and the tip nailed the hull, the boom it made convinced me we had lost a chainplate, so I got to climb forward and resecure the anchor. Did I mention it was pitch black night no moon?  I learned a lot that night like if I had gone overboard I was dead. Made a lot of changes, AIS SART and carry a light and handheld radio on vest etc.

I believe it’s called one trial learning.

[RoundTwo]

On 9/25/2022 at 10:14 AM, GeeBee said:

The problem with that system is not antenna size, but antenna size relative to receiver sesativity. If you could couple that antenna with some of the newer R/T units it would be a reasonable unit. As it is, nobody is interested because it is a miniscule market and it would require a completely new system including antenna, smal and odd though it may be.

The new R/T units are so sensative that the transmiiter puts out less power than your home microwave is allowed to leak. This of course requires a sensative receiver (a deaf man hears nothing at a rock concert). A more sensative receiver can use smaller a antenna.

 

I looked at a J at PDK today that has the antenna but nothing, except probably lots of wiring, left in the cockpit. I wonder how much $$$ it would take to make that all disappear, along with the INOP radar altimeter.

R2

[A64Pilot]

On 1/12/2023 at 3:55 PM, RoundTwo said:

I looked at a J at PDK today that has the antenna but nothing, except probably lots of wiring, left in the cockpit. I wonder how much $$$ it would take to make that all disappear, along with the INOP radar altimeter.

R2

It’s often extraordinarily difficult to remove wiring as it’s very often zip tied in bundles often in places that’s almost impossible to get to without tearing the aircraft apart as these were installed in the aircraft build process, it only takes a couple if inaccessible zip ties to make full removal unlikely.

I hate zip ties, they have no place on wiring as they can and do break wiring, wiring should be laced, but almost never is anymore.

So you end up with a LOT of wires that go no where in an aircraft that has had avionics upgrades, especially if more than one upgrade. The upgrade wiring can usually be removed, but it adds hours and not just a few to the process so most often it’s not done.

I don’t even turn on my Radar altimeter or the Storm Scope. I keep thinking I will fix the Radar altimeter but haven’t yet, but I like Radar altimeters, don’t think they are necessary, but like having one. The Storm Scope? I think with ADSB Wx it’s less useful than maybe it used to be.