Are transponders suggested for gyro planes?

[Richard Randolph]

Richard send me an e-mail ([email protected]). I may have a used Sandia STX165 transponder that we use as standard in AR-1 that I could sell you at reduced price. I think I also have a uAvionix echoUAT and SkyFx (ADSB IN/OUT) used there as well. It came off of a trike. It will save you 40% off new prices.

Thanks Dave! My email address is [email protected].

 

[Richard Randolph]

Bill Whitehouse. Upstate NY. It is one of the earlier AR-1s. Bill Whitehouse unfortunately passed away of cancer. His wife told me on one of his last flights, he was so weak that when he landed and went over a bump or something the bone in his arm cracked. I am glad he could fly his last flight but I cannot fathom flying in such a condition. People surprise me beyond my imagination all the time. May he RIP.

Yes, we went out to dinner while I was up there and she explained he wanted to make one last flight. His bones were brittle because of the cancer. He actually broke it on takeoff and he had to practice landing with one arm. He explained he flew about 20-30 minutes trying to figure out how to do it. Then he had to sit in the cockpit for about an hour until someone came to help him get out. That had to have been awful.

 

[Richard Randolph]

Thanks Dave! My email address is [email protected].

Sorry Abid - I wrote too fast - thinking I was writing to Dave.

 

[Tyger]

I never met Mr Whitehouse, but it now suddenly makes sense the time I landed my (yellow) gyro at Garnsey's airfield, just south of Schuylerville, NY, and Mr Garnsey said to me, "I thought you were someone else!"

 

[Richard Randolph]

I never met Mr Whitehouse, but it now suddenly makes sense the time I landed my (yellow) gyro at Garnsey's airfield, just south of Schuylerville, NY, and Mr Garnsey said to me, "I thought you were someone else!"

Wow! I will let Dorothy know that story!