On 1/18/2011 10:01 AM, Paul Moggach wrote:
The real questions are what might be effective, and in what environment?
Radios are ineffective everywhere.

Maybe you are using the wrong radios. My radios have been effective for
over 30 years. They have alerted me to traffic I can not see as I
approach the airport area, alerted other pilots to my intention and need
to land very soon after I arrive, let me keep the towplane from starting
the tow when I'm going to need the runway, gotten me the intentions of
airplanes sitting just off the end of the runway, kept me from flying
under the skydiver airplane that's 10,000' above me just before the
jumpers exit, let me inform other pilots I've joined their thermal (and
vice versa), and that sequencing thing JJ mentioned.

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