Introduction To LS6-b, HDM

HDM ready for towing
HDM ready for towing to the launch point.
INTRODUCING HDM

The LS6-b VH-HDM is ready to fly. This short introduction is to 
assist pilots intending to fly HDM and to inform them of equipment 
that comes with the glider and of further information about HDM.
This introduction covers a number of points:
i) Insurance
ii) Loose items that come with HDM including the flight manual and
the user guides for the Cambridge glide computer and GPS flight
recorder
iii) HDM's Instrumentation
iv) HDM's Hangar
v) HDM's Trailer.

INSURANCE
HDM and its trailer are insured against flight and ground handling
damage. There is an "excess" on the glider of A$1000 which means
that damage up to A$1000 is not covered by the insurance policy
and would have to be covered by the person causing the damage.
The parachute and GPS flight recorder are insured as "loose items"
against damage or loss.
The excess on the trailer is $A250, on the parachute A$140 and on
the GPS flight recorder A$250.

LOOSE ITEMS
There are a number of loose items that come with HDM. The important
ones are stored in a locker in the Parachute Room near the GCV
Office (the others are stored in the hangar near HDM - see below).
The items stored in the Parachute Room locker are:
* parachute together with sheep skin
* battery
* Cambridge GPS flight recorder, if not mounted under the cover of
HDM's instrument panel
* LS6-b Flight Manual
* Cambridge glide computer Manual and Cambridge GPS Navigator and
Flight Recorder User's Guide (in the same folder as the Flight
Manual).

HDM's INSTRUMENTATION
Apart from the usual flight instruments, HDM's instrumentation
consists of an integrated Cambridge system of variometer, glide
computer and GPS flight recorder. The two main instruments are:
* Cambridge L-NAV Glide Computer
* Cambridge GPS Navigator and Secure Flight Recorder
The GPS flight recorder maintains a database of turn points which has
been down-loaded from a PC. This database contains approximately 100
of the major turns points used around Benalla. These turn points are
suitable for speed and distance records.
Copies of the User Guide's for these two instruments are provided in
a folder together with the LS6-b Flight Manual.
Copies of these manuals and demos can be down-loaded from:
http://www.cai.???.com

HDM's HANGAR
HDM lives in a shared spacious east-facing hangar (shady in the hot 
afternoons) which should be closed and locked each day before HDM is
taken out to the flight line.
In the hangar there is a yellow cupboard which contains bits and
pieces belonging to HDM. In the top drawer of the cupboard there is
a cloth bag which can be used for inflight storage of fruit and
other necessities. Ballast weights are stored in the bottom section
of the cupboard.
In the general vicinity of the yellow cupboard there are other items 
belonging to HDM such as wing covers and water filling equipment
including a water meter. HDM's wing covers are pulled off and dropped
(and stored) into 2 blue plastic washing baskets.
There is also a red plastic bucket containing items which can be
used for daily preparation of the glider. These include:
* a chamois and cleaning cloths
* a bottle of methylated spirits
* scissors and plastic tape
There is a convenient water tap outside the northern end of the
hangar which can be used for filling HDM with water ballast.

HDM's TRAILER
HDM's trailer lives in the trailer park of Benalla airfield and can
be identified by 7 cm high black plastic letters on the front of the
trailer. Inside the front, and rear, door of the trailer there are
plastic covered instructions on how to de-rig HDM.
In the front of the trailer there are a number of car-to-trailer
cable connectors. On either side of the front door hangs a cable with
a different car connector. There is also a short cable adaptor for GM
brand cars which should be in the box in the front of the trailer.


												Safe flying



												Robert Dorning
												October 2010