If you read my write up about the convention you'll see I agree on
Transponders and PCAS. Flarm *might* have it's place as well (glider
to glider collision avoidance in contests/high glider traffic areas,
e.g. places like the White mountains). ADSB is the long term solution,
with such a long time until we see usable units in gliders that I
expect Flarm may get a beachhead in the USA. I'll buy a Flarm and see
for myself. If it discourages people adopting Transponders where they
should (and that's a lot more places than just Reno) then its a bad
thing. What would be interesting is a combined Zaon PCAS + Flarm unit.
People were asking about the possibility of this at the convention.

BTW I was flying a Duo Discus (with transponder installed and actually
turned on) coming south onto the north end of the Pinenuts when the
Hawker and ASG-29 collided, I spent a large part of that flight
discussing transponders with the other pilot flying in the Duo with
me. I was arguing pro, he was arguing did not make much difference. It
was a hell of a way to win an argument. My DG-303 and ASH-26E both
carry Becker transponders and Zaon MRX PCAS, and the club I used to be
a member of also had transponders in all of its gliders.


Darryl

On Feb 20, 8:18 pm, K l e i n wrote:
On Feb 20, 8:16 pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:



I wrote up a brief summary of what interested me, available hehttp://www.mindensoaringclub.com

Flarm in the USA is just a matter of time, they basically announced
their intent to enter the USA market and are talking to potential
dealers, etc.

Darryl

On Feb 20, 5:54 pm, Tim wrote:

Come on now, what where some of the highlights from this year's
convention for those of us stuck at home for various reasons. With no
convention next year, there should have been a lot of "new" stuff.
Usually RAS is full of post-convention

Some information I would love to hear about would be....

How'd the Flarm/ADS-B forum go?
Extreme Performance/Sinha De-turbulator update?
Duckhawk update?
Anything else of interest?

Really, anythign will do...

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A couple of years ago I was PIC on a Citation descending into Reno.
ATC called out glider traffic. Me and my co-pilot were looking hard
but didn't see anything until......I saw it at my 9 o'clock, my
altitude, about 200 yards away. Too dang close!!

This makes me think that the only workable long term solution is that
gliders need to be doing the same thing everybody else is. Thus,
FLARM is a dead end. But hey, it's cheap and doesn't really hurt
anything. ADS-B does about the same thing but eventually everyone
will be doing that so that is where we need to end up. Meanwhile,
look for a lite, cheap, low-power, small transponder to use along with
a ZAON.

I attended the second half of the session Wednesday afternoon (late
arrival) and didn't hear anything that made me change my mind about
the above.

K l e i n