SSA responds to ANPRM

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:07:01 PM UTC-7, Ramy wrote:
On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 8:45:12 PM UTC-7, George Haeh wrote:
I have been slogging through the some
220 responses and came across a
response from the NTSB:

http://www.regulations.gov/contentStrea
mer?documentId=FAA-2015-2147-
0137&attachmentNumber=1&disposition
=attachment&contentType=pdf

"our main concern was to ensure that
gliders are detectable by an aircraft
equipped with a traffic alert and collision
avoidance system (TCAS)"

Gliders are already kept well away from
air carriers by Class B and C.

That makes the primary beneficiaries of
the ANPRM private jet owners able to
afford TCAS - $30K to $200K before
installation.

As long as they're transmitting ADS-B,
anybody with PowerFLARM knows
exactly where they are from several miles
away and can avoid.

This can not be further from the truth! Is NTSB really that clueless? Are they assuming that air carriers are immediately in class A when outside of class B/C, or do they assume that gliders only fly in patterns around small airports outside class B/C? Anyone who is flying in Reno area, Las Vegas area, in the Bay Area and any other soaring area within 50 miles of a major airport knows that we sharing the same airspace with airliners, including inside Mode C veil!

Ramy

Ramy - the NTSB only said the part in the quotes, the rest of it was the opinion (or mistake) of the poster.