The whole anti collision warning thing is way to dangerous. If you
could design and build such a device, how do you get that information
to the pilot?

At a club nearby there was a mid-air a few years ago. nobody was
hurt, but every-one was shaken up. A short while later the club
two seater was in circuit and called downwind with the wrong callsign.
The club duty pilot on the ground saw the glider in circuit and heard
the call. Noticing the difference he called the glider and warned him
that another glider was in circuit. The pilot was so concerned with
looking out for the 'other' glider that he neglected his circuit
and landed short of the airfield damaging the glider.

To busy looking for the 'other' glider to fly his own. Imagine flying
in a busy part of the sky with all that information about the other
five glider being thrust at you all the time. Distraction could cause
more problems than the information fixes.

But if collisions happen because situational awareness is inadequate,
perhaps the first step is to enhance situational awareness. A device
that could show the location of nearby gliders would be handy, but
the simpler the better. A little information that can be absorbed
in a glance and integrated into your normal scan would be useful
with being such a distraction that it was dangerous. The MK1 eyeball
may not be adequate by itself, but it is an essential tool that
we need to keep using for outside scan, not peering at some instrument.
This is especially true if there are other gliders close by.


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Philip Plane _____
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