Help us with this petition for security on anti-collision systems

Il giorno mercoledì 27 maggio 2015 12:45:08 UTC+2, Kevin Neave ha scritto:
Since you ask...

The first hit from Google for "dsx systems t-advisor" is

http://frank.schellenberg.nl/wp-cont...r_07_12_19.pdf

This states..

"The Traffic Advisor, notifies the pilot the presence of all planes that
enter within the radio operating range (that for the T-Advisor is up to 7
km)"

I may be dim but I read that as "T-Advisor tells you 'that there are lots
of gliders flying within 7 km' ".

So I'll rephrase that.

It *would* tell me that there are lots of planes flying within 7km of me if
they were fitted with DSX.

The aircraft I'm interested in are the ones that are that are converging
with me. Flarm warns me of these as long as they are also Flarm equipped
Flarm is intended as an aid to lookout, generally I've seen most contacts
by the time Flarm generates a warning, occasionally I get a wake up call.
Flarm reminds me that my lookout is not as good as it could be.
(Of course I have no idea how many I'm missing and Flarm isn't picking up)

I don't see what T-Advisor would give me

A large number of the gliders flying XC in the UK (possibly a majority by
now) are using Flarm. I don't know of ANY using DSX.

So I repeat the question, how many gliders in Europe are using DSX?
Or more specifically how many in the UK are using DSX?

KN



At 23:44 26 May 2015, Lucas wrote:
Kevin Neave, can you show in which website you read that the T-Advisor
tells you "that there are lots of gliders flying within 7 km" ?

Kevin,
I honestly do not understand why you are so emotional about this topic. No one is trying to convince you that you should trash your device, nor that's the aim of the petition. But you have to take that some other may prefer a T-Advisor. I personally prefer the T-Advisor because I like better its clock and because I agree with the philosophy behind its warning algorithm. If you ask though "how many gliders in Europe are using a DSX", well, I remind you that was it only one, yet makes you Flarm's policy one of the flarm customers that may die in a mid-air collision with a DSX pilot. You have to agree this is a very unusual way of "customer caring".