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Old January 8th 17, 07:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default First TSO-C199 "TABS" device

On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 1:07:30 PM UTC-8, Tango Eight wrote:
On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 3:23:44 PM UTC-5, JS wrote:
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Perhaps the easiest way to warn is with good audio.
Do any of the currently available TABS / ADSB-In devices offer audible warnings?
And do they fit in - not hanging off like an afterthought - a typical glider instrument panel?
Possibly the new Air-Avionics unit?
Jim


Flarm (that is, the company) tells me that it (that is, the powerflarm product) sends warning messages for conflicting adsb traffic on the dataport(s) exactly the same way it does for flarm, but with logic appropriate to power planes / jets / whatever. If that's true, then you as a flarm + CN2 user are covered. You'll get the same "Traffic, 3 o'clock high" message you would get for a glider, but presumably at a much greater distance. Unfortunately (and this is a real aggravation for me) there is NO WAY TO TEST THIS short of jousting with an ADSB-out equipped aircraft.

best,
Evan Ludeman / T8


I can tell you from experience that the Air Avionics vario will warn of ADSB traffic just as it does with Flarm traffic. The audio changes to "AIRCRAFT, 3 O'CLOCK, HIGH etc" instead of "GLIDER". In the Tahoe Reno area we have plenty of passenger jets flying close by to test this....