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| Title: | Welcome To The Radio Control Conference |
| Notice: | dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19 |
| Moderator: | VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS |
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| Created: | Tue Jan 13 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1706 |
| Total number of notes: | 27193 |
342.0. "Casio altimeter watch" by ELMAGO::TTOMBAUGH (High Plains Drifter) Tue Apr 17 1990 18:50
One other thing we did this weekend that was sort of interesting:
Lucas had just gotten a new $80 Casio altimeter watch. Obviously
the first thing to do with it is stuff it into his 60" mini-Sagitta
and launch it into the wild blue. About three of us are gawking
as he climbs to the limits of visibility and after a few minutes
it was just to eye straining to continue. He comes down, removes
the watch and it informs him that he had climbed 1400 ft. AGL.
Not bad, but not good enough.
Ah, Pat has his brand new 96", bright yellow, scratch built,
Challenger old timer just sitting there. In goes the watch.
Pat climbs out, Saito .45 4-c clawing for altitude. It specks
out, Pat loses visual contact, we take turns telling him where it
is. He gets it back, flys around till fuel runs out, flys around
another 45 min., still at speck altitude. Finally lands, out comes
the watch, 3860 ft. AGL !
Now, do I need a new watch too?
Terry
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| 342.1 | Casio Question | USRCV1::BLUMJ | | Mon May 07 1990 16:25 | 11 |
| Tom,
How do you know how high you really are using this Casio watch?
In other words if you put the watch in a plane and are flying in Denver
and it says you were 6000ft. high, you would have to know how high
the Denver Plateau is to figure out how high you really were above
ground instead of sea level. Is this true?
Regards,
Jim
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| 342.2 | | RVAX::SMITH | I FEEL THE NEED | Mon May 07 1990 16:36 | 7 |
| Hi Jim,
I believe you are able to set the watch to 0 so that
you are reading feet above ground level. If not, your right. You'd
have to know your starting altitude to calculate the difference.
Steve
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| 342.3 | | CURIE::ANKER | Anker Berg-Sonne | Mon May 07 1990 17:12 | 7 |
| Re: <<< Note 337.48 by RVAX::SMITH "I FEEL THE NEED" >>>
I have one. You set zero altitude, which you have to do
anyway because atmospheric pressure changes all the time. Its a
really cute watch.
Anker
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| 342.4 | Get a Casio | CURIE::ANKER | Anker Berg-Sonne | Mon Jun 18 1990 10:29 | 9 |
| Re: <<< Note 1222.3 by GIDDAY::CHADD >>>
John,
Who not get the Casio altimeter watch? It has a
barometer and it costs between $50 and and $100 depending on
where you find it.
Anker
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| 342.5 | Relative altimeter measuring watch | CSC32::M_ANTRY | | Mon Jun 18 1990 16:23 | 4 |
| I have one of the watch's and I would not call it a altimeter watch I
would call it a RELATIVE altimeter watch. It is not temp compensated.
It does show pressure in MILLI-BAR's though....
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