Tow Tally

I just finished the Jeti-fication of my Extra 330L tow plane. (Up till now, it has been controlled by a JR 12X.)

During the process, I set up a timer on a switch that I will use to keep track of how many tows I do during a session. By turning the timer on and off quickly after each tow, I can add a single second to the total time and the number of seconds is the number of tows. Not elegant, but it sort of works.

What would be really neat, is to have a tally that can be increased one unit at a time through the use of a momentary switch, with the total being displayed on the screen.

Gudmund

Hello,

just another workaround: Create a log file with every tow. In the evening you just count the number of logs. You will have a complete history. Number of tows. Duration of tows. Models used. Flight ceiling that was reached and so on. And all this stored for every day out on the field.

Gernot

Thanks Gernot.

I do that as well, with the data beginning to be collected when I move the kill switch off to start the engine and stopping when I am finished the flying session and kill the engine.

My purpose for the tally is to give me a way of knowing roughly how much gas I have left in my tank, without actually walking out on the runway to check.

(With the Jeti telemetry, I could actually use a sensor to measure the flow of the gas, but that is probably a bit of overkill.)

Gudmund