Ramy wrote:
Wow, so many aircrafts...
In the 7 years and about 2000 hours I flew my LS4, I never saw
commercial traffic close by, and I fly most of the time in the Reno
area. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I am using a transponder?
I had one close call over airsailing with an airliner in the short time
I flew club gliders without transponders (I believe they all have
transponders now).


Could be where you fly - in the Phoenix area (and most of NW AZ), there
is a lot of traffic. Then again, It doesn't bother me to be around
other airplanes - it's kind of neat to watch a big old airliner cruise
by (and wonder if anyone in it saw me), or get checked out in a thermal
by a couple of AV-8 (which happened to me up by the Grand Canyon - they
altered course and came over to where I was thermalling at about
15,000', went by on either side of the thermal. I waved at them, of
course).

But just cuz you don't see it, don't mean it aint there!

Kirk