On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:05:58 AM UTC-6, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
On 02/25/2015 10:31 AM, John Galloway wrote:
You can still look out the window from time to time
Exactly, FLARM is an aide if you NEED it you're doing it wrong...

Well, no, not always - more likely you NEED it if SOMEONE ELSE is doing it wrong!

For example, someone entering you thermal where you can't see him, and not clearing his flight path so he hits you - you can do everything right and still be blindsided.

Or, in the case of PowerFLARM, a powerplane blasting through your thermal or glider field airspace at pattern altitude. Sure are a lot of nice pretty screens to look at in modern planes, why look outside? And if there isn't 10,000ft of concrete and a control zone around it, there couldn't be an active airfield in that big grass field, after all....

Kirk
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