Graham, It is teed into the pitot and static airlines but
calculates speed electronically and has built in
accelerometers so that it compensates for g and
effectively gives Angle of Attack related warnings. It has
two modes with a female voice through your headset:
firstly it/she will just tell you your airspeed at
intervals (I rarely use that mode) but more importantly it
acts as a speed director in approach or take off mode.
Once settled on your approach you press a button for a
couple of seconds and she says Chosen speed is 60kts (or
whatever). Then if you stay within a few percent of that
she says 'Speed good' in a calm voice at intervals. As you
slow down she has three messages in progressively less
calm voice: 'Speed slow', 'Speed very slow'; and Speed
very slow preceded by a loud gong. Quite impossible to
ignore. Speeding up going away from the circuit she goes
to sleep but wakes up automatically when you get within a
few percent of your previously chosen approach speed,
which remains set unless you change it. It is a brilliant
piece of kit, designed as a life saving tool for
emergencies like EFATOs when the most experienced pilots
will still sometimes find themselves ignoring speed
control and falling out of the sky. But quite
coincidentally it is very much more effective than any
stall warner I have flown with. My Europa one doesn't make
much noise - a problem for a deaf old fart with expensive
modern headset, and on top of that it sounds for an
appreciable part of take off and landing runs, so I am
'trained' to ignore it!
Regards, David
GRAHAM SINGLETON <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com> wrote:
> David,
> Not sure how SmartASS is installed, is it tee'd into the
>ASI?
> Trouble with the ASI is it tells you what has happened
>anything up to 20 seconds after
> the cause of the event (loss of speed) occured.
> The stall warner gives you an instant warning of change
>of AoA, and that's what matters.
> By the time the ASI has told you you're stalling, you
>already have.
> AoA tells you it's going to happen if you don't do
>something quickly, (get the nose down).
> Graham
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Joyce <davidjoyce@doctors.org.uk>
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2014, 22:22
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Motorglider wings
>
>
><davidjoyce@doctors.org.uk>
>
> Ian, I wonder whether a SmartASS would possibly be
>considered as an acceptable stall warner. It is in my
>experience a considerably more effective tool than the
>Europa stall warner, (having flown with both now for a
>couple of years), and much easier to fit. It has in
>addition a wheels up warning which sounds if you slow to
>approach speed without putting gear down. It is currently
>out of production (at Smart Avionics) but Mark Burton is
>hoping to launch a new improved version in the next few
>months.
> Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
>
>
> Ian Cook <iancook_1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Alan,
>>
>> For Info
>>
>>
>>
>> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
>> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On
>>Behalf Of Alan Twigg
>> Sent: 06 February 2014 18:03
>> To: Europa list
>> Subject: Europa-List: Motorglider wings
>>
>>
>>
>> Making great progress after a delay over Christmas. Drag
>>pin spacers fitted
>> and glassed; Lift and Drag fittings going on in next two
>>days then off to
>> the paintshop.
>>
>> Having a gliding instructor job, I have so much spare
>>time with all this
>> wind and rain in the UK, I must be one of the few with
>>anything positive to
>> come out of it.
>>
>> The poor souls in Somerset are flooded out, the South
>>Coast rail line to
>> Cornwall is washed away and still it c=============
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