On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 1:30:58 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:

Some of you seem to think the military doesn't care about midairs and is nonchalant about zooming around at low level. That is totally wrong - dead is dead whether you are in a 1-26 or an F-35! . . .
If you don't have either a transponder or a PowerFLARM in you glider, you are a big part of the problem.
Kirk
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What he said. I've had transponders in all the gliders I've owned since 1996, and for sure the military guys ARE paying attention! Once while ridge soaring on a ridge in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley, I spotted a couple of jets right off the deck coming in my general direction (yes, the xponder was blinking lilke all get-out). I watched both of them swing away, rock there wings at me, and drop right back down on their course.
The Curmudgeon