Oops!
Link should be
www.filser.de
or
http://www.filser.de/index/index.php?kat=e_transponder&language=e
DMcF.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ami McFadyean" <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Europa-List: Mode S
<ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
>
> What's everyone doing about this?
> The whole issue seems to have enormous political momentum and it doesn't
look like going away, despite the fact that it either doesn't work, or the
technology is ill conceived, or is of no use to us, or that it does not have
the ground infrastructure to support it etc etc
>
> Hiding shyly in a display cabinet at hte Telford (UK) microlight show last
weekend was a new German Mode S transponder that seems to be suited to sport
flying and at a less than outrageous price.
>
> Further details are available at:
>
> http://www.filder.de
>
> or
>
> http://www.filser.de/main.php?date_ger_trt600
>
> and associated links. Lightweight, small and with exceptionally low
current drain. Includes height encoder and Flight Level readout. Also, the
unique aircraft identification code is programmable through the front panel
(could be very useful!!).
>
> For those that don't have an ordinary transponder fitted by 2005 (e.g. me
currently) the Mode S will be required at that time. Otherwise we'll
currently all need one by 2008. Worse still, the requirements state that any
new aircraft after 3/2004 will need Mode S straight away (I can see no small
print that qualifies this with IFR-only use, or for aircraft above a certain
weight). So that would mean any builder NOW in the UK who has not registered
his 'plane by 3/2004 will need Mode S. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
>
>
> Duncan McF.
> PS It was brave of AFE to take the Mode S transponder to a microlight
show, lest a number of angry people take offence and assault it!
>
>
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