Tue May 22, 2018 11:10 pm
#1613119
By my reckoning, on the patch within which I probably fly half of my annual 100ish hours, in the last year we've had one reportable airprox about every 10 days, about one actually reported a month, and a mid air collision that took four lives. In 1800 hours I've had three airproxes (one reported, two not) close enough that had I failed to take immediate avoiding action I would no longer be alive.
That is worth £400ish of my money (although clearly, sharing the load with the syndicate has no downside!).
Solution looking for a problem? In my mind, the problem is there.
My biggest issue, right now, is that we have five systems out there now transmitting...
Transmitting
Mode A/C
Mode S
ADS-B
FLARM
PAW / P3i
And three receiving...
TCAS / TPAS
FLARM
PAW
And of course there are flying machines transmitting nothing, and most flying machines still have no form of traffic information.
That's a tower of babel, and deeply unsatisfactory. However, having something like PAW in your cockpit is a whole lot better than having nothing, and I'm going for what appears to be the least poor solution - at the moment that's PAW & Mode-S.
I'm entirely willing to believe that in 3 years, something much better will have converged a lot of these standards. And when it does, I'll upgrade.
And I'm the big cynic about moving maps! But I see this somewhat differently.
G
That is worth £400ish of my money (although clearly, sharing the load with the syndicate has no downside!).
Solution looking for a problem? In my mind, the problem is there.
My biggest issue, right now, is that we have five systems out there now transmitting...
Transmitting
Mode A/C
Mode S
ADS-B
FLARM
PAW / P3i
And three receiving...
TCAS / TPAS
FLARM
PAW
And of course there are flying machines transmitting nothing, and most flying machines still have no form of traffic information.
That's a tower of babel, and deeply unsatisfactory. However, having something like PAW in your cockpit is a whole lot better than having nothing, and I'm going for what appears to be the least poor solution - at the moment that's PAW & Mode-S.
I'm entirely willing to believe that in 3 years, something much better will have converged a lot of these standards. And when it does, I'll upgrade.
And I'm the big cynic about moving maps! But I see this somewhat differently.
G
Last edited by Genghis the Engineer on Tue May 22, 2018 11:28 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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