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In article grunloh@uiuc.edu (Daniel Grunloh) wrote: The previous owner of my trike, btw, never flew with an altimeter the whole time he had the trike. He used no instruments whatsoever ;). So, its certainly no requirement for ULs in general in the US. In our case, though, we fly at a GA airport, and in the vicinity of some victor airways (followed by GA aircraft flying both VFR and IFR). We also have a specific pattern altitude for ultralights at our field. Because of all this, knowledge of altitude is a necessity for safe flight (IMO). LS AC fun racer. > In article > "JWL" > >Thanks guys, > > > > LSs answer is what I was looking for. Id read LSs original to mean > >that installing an altimeter would violate 103 (not that I knew what that > >meant) and didnt consider the additional weight of the instrument and > >deck. thought it peculiar that a safety critical instrument would violate > >something! > > Most ultralight pilots here in the US dont consider an altimeter > to be that safety critical. Much of the flying is done under > 1500 ft AGL and well away from controlled airports. We like to > know how high we are, but its not critical to safety. It can be > important if flying under a layer of class B-C-D airspace and also > we need to know if we are above 1200 feet and must have 3 miles > visibility. I still sometimes fly without my wrist altimeter and > its not at all unsafe in my local flying area. > > -------------- > Daniel Grunloh (grunloh@uiuc.edu) > http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~grunloh > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ |
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