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RE: Finding a lost plane - 3/6/2004 1:02:32 AM   
aeajr



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A Digi-Alarm - locator/battery monitor/frequency conflit - tiny and light - My favoriate so far one.
http://www.californiasailplanes.com/Lost%20model%20alarm.html

RC Electronic Concepts Model Aircraft Locator = Locator only - works well, but is kinda big - have two of them.
http://www.rcelectronics.bravepages.com/Locator.html

Just ordered one from HansenHobbies.com - V Sentry - battery monitor and model locator - haven't received it yet.
http://www.hansenhobbies.com/products.html

For new flyers, I think these are great and they are cheap. I recommend them to all new flyers. For $15 you can save a lot of time looking if your plane goes down in teh tall grass.

For slopers, they can be very useful and for sailplane pilots I especially recommend the battery monitors. Yes, with the new battery packs, you are less likely to run the battery down, but you could. For $15, you got it covered, and you find the plane if you don't make it back to the field and you can make sure no one else is on your channel.

Pretty good value for $15 in my book.

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RE: Finding a lost plane - 3/6/2004 6:35:56 PM   
Rodney



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Status: offline 		In most of the lost planes or crashes I've had or witnessed, at least half had the battery disconnect in the landing(crash) so no battery power available to a buzzer. There are some made that have a self contained battery that work quite well. They plug into a spare channel and, when no signal is available, go off after a slight delay (usually a scant second or two) and beep as long as the self contained battery lasts. These also remind you if you forget to turn off the receiver when you park your plane. Of course, they hgave their own switch which you must remember to turn on at the start of the flight. If you are really serious and have an expensive plane, you can use an RF tracker like they put on animals. some of these are very light (go on birds) but you need a good hand held antenna and receiver to track them plus they are very expensive.

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