Sat May 19, 2018 5:41 pm
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TLRippon wrote:
Still is a chunk of a box. Right now I don’t have anything between me and the view of traffic in the window.
Anyway I have a big red an white aeroplane, covered in flashing lights, pushing Mode A,C & S pinging up on every radar screen and TCAS on commercials and you still can’t see me.
And without a RADAR HEAD or TCAS , the Mk1 Eyeball STILL CAN’T SEE YOUR MODE A,C,S and WON’T HAVE A CLUE YOU’RE THERE - ESPECIALLY IF APPROACHING FROM A BLIND SPOT, RATHER THAN TOWARDS ONE OF THEIR ‘WINDOWS’.
With my PilotAware, I WILL get early warning of your presence from your Mode C/S transmissions, WELL BEFORE YOU ARE IN VISUAL RANGE AND IRRESPECTIVE OF YOUR DIRECTION OF APPROACH, and will instantly know your altitude, whether you are climbing towards me from below or descending on top of my wing (that one nearly cost me my life a year ago), closing at the same altitude, moving parallel, or moving away. All it takes is intelligent interpretation of the on-screen warnings.
Oh.... and of course, I don’t even need to look at the screen, because the same warnings are passed to me audibly through my headset, which was what saved me from the incompetent, who obviously couldn’t see MY flashing lights, ADSB, Mode S, FLARM or P3i transmissions yet decided it was safe to descend right on top of me near RAF Benson last May!
If you think having a simple Mode A, C, S transponder and relying on visual scan will protect you from MAC outside CAS, - I’m sorry to have to tell you, you are flying in Cloud Cuckoo Land. But keep them all on, at least I will see you coming in time to focus my eyeballs on the flashing lights and get out of the way.
Peter
Last edited by exfirepro on Sat May 19, 2018 6:01 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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