"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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"pilotjww" wrote in message
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Nice thread.

A small nit: I fly a low-wing, and any ATC traffic alert inside of 4-5
miles
and below my altitude will be hard to see without some maneuvering to
remove
my airplane's nose or wing from line-of sight. I expect even a high-wing
will also have at least the problem of traffic under the nose. I get a
lot
of these alerts, where the traffic is a thousand or more below me, often
unverified, and I find them useless.

You might want to think carefully about the potential impact of erroneous
mode C information. It happens. It has happened to me more than once
(see
earlier posts). It has caused me to pay attention to those "low and
close"
alerts by at least for a moment, pretending that it is at my altitude. At
least it gives you something to scan for. Maybe you'll see that glider
loitering at cloud base.


If ATC has you verified and another target unverified indicating a safely
separated altitude, is it SOP to call traffic just in case? Will the
controller make use of a previous report ("he's wa-a-ay below me") in
deciding whether to do so?

-- David Brooks