Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:15 pm
#1869875
Haven’t bought a device yet but had a borrow and play and took one to Sywell the rally weekend.
Has any consensus devloped on best practice for integrating with your lookout?
Are people using the presented info on seperate devices or overlayed on their main nav app?
Where is that physically in eyelines?
What’s your workflow checking it? What sort of scale are you putting it at/acting on?
Have people got the audio rigged up and connected thus that it’s, well, audible?
It was the first time I’d used any sort of traffic info, and had it overlayed on map on my phone. That was mounted atop the coaming. Nav app on my lap on full sized ipad. No audio. Track up on the traffic map, north up on the nav map.
I was scanning the traffic info as part of a workflow that included clearing the area obstructed by a piece of aircraft structure that comes up the centre of the windscreen. The mounting position just happened to be about there anyway.
Or I looked when it flashed at me because it thought something was close. That was attention getting in peripheral vision even if looking elsewhere.
I got eyes onto less than half of what it drew my attention to but on two occasions changed course or height in reponse anyway. One tracking head on reporting 500 below (I turned aside), and one similar level converging from behind me and catching up (I climbed).
Both about fifteen miles out from Sywell and probably coming or going from same. Neither passed super close according tot he device, and maybe they had seen me and would have been no threat anyway but it was interesting to see how much I’m not seeing.
And there were other things I saw with eyes that weren’t showing on EC too of course.
It became apparent that the scale I wanted the map at for traffic awareness was not the same as I wanted the scale at for nav - how are people squaring that when using an overlayed method?
I also didn’t experiment with the option to have the traffic on the “radar” style display rather than on the map which I think might have given me a better feel for how far out I was looking.
Anyway it was interesting and would welcome comments on workflow and setup from people using it for longer.
Has any consensus devloped on best practice for integrating with your lookout?
Are people using the presented info on seperate devices or overlayed on their main nav app?
Where is that physically in eyelines?
What’s your workflow checking it? What sort of scale are you putting it at/acting on?
Have people got the audio rigged up and connected thus that it’s, well, audible?
It was the first time I’d used any sort of traffic info, and had it overlayed on map on my phone. That was mounted atop the coaming. Nav app on my lap on full sized ipad. No audio. Track up on the traffic map, north up on the nav map.
I was scanning the traffic info as part of a workflow that included clearing the area obstructed by a piece of aircraft structure that comes up the centre of the windscreen. The mounting position just happened to be about there anyway.
Or I looked when it flashed at me because it thought something was close. That was attention getting in peripheral vision even if looking elsewhere.
I got eyes onto less than half of what it drew my attention to but on two occasions changed course or height in reponse anyway. One tracking head on reporting 500 below (I turned aside), and one similar level converging from behind me and catching up (I climbed).
Both about fifteen miles out from Sywell and probably coming or going from same. Neither passed super close according tot he device, and maybe they had seen me and would have been no threat anyway but it was interesting to see how much I’m not seeing.
And there were other things I saw with eyes that weren’t showing on EC too of course.
It became apparent that the scale I wanted the map at for traffic awareness was not the same as I wanted the scale at for nav - how are people squaring that when using an overlayed method?
I also didn’t experiment with the option to have the traffic on the “radar” style display rather than on the map which I think might have given me a better feel for how far out I was looking.
Anyway it was interesting and would welcome comments on workflow and setup from people using it for longer.
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