Doesn’t it also “wear out” the radar antenna? I thought I read something like that in the pilot’s guide to a P210 radar.
If you look at the flimsy little motors and gears that move the antenna (they look more like model airplane than anything else) I can understand why the pilot’s guide recommends to use them only when it is necessary. In older planes I had several radar failures but interestingly it was never the mechanical part. Either the transmitting tube (magnetron), some poor connections that attenuated the signal or the 1950ies-TV-style display. I flew through two CBs in my career because of malfunctioning radars.
Either the transmitting tube (magnetron), some poor connections that attenuated the signal or the 1950ies-TV-style display
It was not the mechanical parts they were referring to. This was a 1979 P210 with the original radar and a CRT display in the cockpit. I would need to find the manual…
