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Old May 18th 17, 02:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Power Flarm with ADS-B out?

On Thursday, 18 May 2017 08:50:05 UTC-4, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 10:00:01 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 8:47:36 PM UTC-4, 2G wrote:
If you are thinking about installing ADS-B to avoid mid-airs
with GA aircraft you will be sadly disappointed.


Some of the folks with ADS-B will become lax about visually scanning
for traffic.


If you think they are scanning now, you could be more than disappointed...


I was in a thermal near my home airport with two other gliders; we were spread out about 500' vertical from each other. A Cessna 172 breezed through the centre of our group, maybe 75 metres from me.