Chuck nailed it. Airspeed is a luxary with the legal eagle. Her stall is so mild that it's not like she tells you when she is done flying like a cub, more like she starts complaining to you that she doesn't like how slow she is flying and eventually tells you she is done climbing and makes the controls nice and mushy, thats about it... But if you are interested in light simple airspeed ideas, I guess I didn't have anything better to do and did this instead of hall airspeed. Just a piece of fuel tank scrap and piano wire with a paddle safety wired to the end. Weighs a few ounces and calibrated out the car window
Both do the same thing, and I promise both are very easy to read on the Jury strut. Put it on your left strut as you will be looking that way in the pattern anyway... Pitot-Static Airspeed is definitely overkill in my opinion, just my 2 cents...
And before anyone asks... The 80 is to make hummel ultracruiser pilots question the magnitude of their investment
but no... i haven't seen the needle there... yet
