I had an experience I did not consider a near miss as I had a visual for several miles and more as my Sandel showed the traffic long before, but I was flying a C340 at 16,500 with flight following and a turboprop regional airliner was flying at 17,000 we crossed exactly on path only 500 ft in altitude difference at 45 degree convergence, pretty sure the airliner never saw me, but when the airline pilot called control to complain about not receiving a traffic warning I could hear in the background his traffic alert blaring. The controller, was verbally annoyed he has been called to task, only stating, "that wasn't a conflict you had altitude separation." The same controller should have also warned me.

I have had too many close, and I mean CLOSE calls to count. Have had them in the sky and just above the runway. This is why I am against stealth mode in Flarm! I want all the situational awareness I can get!

On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 6:55:10 AM UTC-8, wrote:
I had a similar near miss over Reno when a light twin passed about 500 feet below me. We were both monitoring center freq and squawking appropriate codes (1201 & VFR). After giving it some thought, I realized the controllers didn't know who we were. No flight plan and neither had asked for flight following. This was before FLARM.......keep your head on a swivel!

The closest I ever came to another ship was over Mono Lake at 16,000 when I suddenly saw a B-52 off to my left and climbing. Much too late to maneuver, I watched in disbelief as it flew right below me............how close? I could see the co-pilot was reading his check-list!
Keep your head on a swivel,
JJ