Do you know anyone who has been in car accident on his way to
the airport?
Do you know anyone who has been in midair collision?
We had this discussion at our club, and result was that no-one
knew anyone who has been in car accident on the way to the
airfield, but many people knew pilots who had been in mid-air
collision. Some survived, some did not.

FLARM people, please provide a low cost FLARM transmitter-only
variant for these who do not want to see other gliders nearby,
but politely would like to disclose their position and heading to
other (childish ;^) pilots using FLARM. Please, you have
something like this available for paragliders.

At 20:21 10 July 2013, wrote:
Hey, jfitch.

You get it. I get it. Significant money and angst being
lavished on gee
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iz technology that does not address the most likely risks in
soaring.
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don't want to hear you.


But the thread is about glider-to-glider mid air collisions. And
the
stat=
istics support the idea that an auto accident on the way to the
airfield
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more probable than a mid air collision once there. Again, no
one here is
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uggesting that soaring is not dangerous (certainly not me), just
that mid
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ir collisions in general and glider-to-glider mid air collisions in
particu=
lar are a negligible part of that danger. 99% of the fatalities are
collisi=
ons with terrain - not involving other aircraft. Flarm could
eliminate the
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remaining 1%, but soaring will not be much safer as a result.