Re: [Paddlewise] [PaddleWise] Sarex and flare failure

From: Allan McLane <amcl_at_sover.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:07:46 -0400
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:01:12 +0200, Tord Eriksson wrote:

Adding aluminium foil to your helmet is an excellent way of bringing
a good reflector - or why not a metal mast, and metal outrigger arms,
like we do? Probably sticks out a mile!
=======

Why bother with the helmet when you could just just go with the foil alone? It has been tested:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

but I think that, as they found, the GPS performance might be compromised.

Cheers,

--allan
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