Yuliy Gerchikov wrote:

The truth is, if you can't see this tiny *motionless* speck ...two miles
away ...in the inversion haze ...on one thermalling turn, then it is going
to hit you before you finish the next.

Yuliy,

Interesting test, but I don't think it anyway replicates real life.
Airplanes at a distance, co-altitude on the horizon, are going to be
black dots almost all the time. What you have to train yourself to
look for is a moving black dot against the background. Worse, you have
to also find the black dot that isn't moving - because that is the one
on a perfect collision course. That situation is tought, but not
impossible. If you turn at all, you break the collision course, and
generate motion on the canopy.

Plus, 20 seconds is an eternity when it comes to getting out of the
way.

So I don't buy your analogy - it just doesn't correlate with my
personal experience.

See and avoid is not the best solution, but it does work - if everybody
does it correctly. I'm starting to think that many pilots have never
been trained how to look for traffic - the basic physiological and
environmental facts that have to be understood in order to scan
succesfully for traffic. Scary!

These are great discussions, IMHO - makes us all think about how we fly
and how others fly.

And I know I need to spend less time with MCU and even more time
scanning!

Kirk