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Old April 12th 15, 11:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Steve Koerner
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Default I'd rather not become an "expert", but... (PF PCAS range config)

Another consideration is that PCAS, being based on amplitude ranging, is very imprecise. A 2 km setting really means something like 1 km to 4 km. Thus there is a certain probability that you'd have considerably less time to react than you'd expect from the nominal calculation.