Glider Crash - Minden?

Yes, we all see the connection.

How are they planning to avoid hang and paragliders?

The BGA has made a response as an organisation to the recent PRIA, it is to
be found at http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/BGARIAResponseFinal.doc for the
response document, and at
http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/Email...rLetterRIA.pdf for the covering
letter. There were some 3,000 responses sent to the DAP.

On UAVs the BGA says in Response 1 Issue 6: "Issue 6. The BGA believes
strongly that it is totally unacceptable that existing airspace users should
be disadvantaged or burdened as UAV traffic develops in the future."

It is confounded cheek for commercial interests to think they can fly UAVs
wherever they like and we shall just have to suffer the inconvenience or
worse to accommodate them. They would never dream of doing this on the
roads, why in the sky?

As to the example quoted in the BBC of an UAV "seeing" something the human
eye would have missed, this can equally easily be done with sensors fitted
to manned aircraft. The military use UAVs partly to avoid people being
shot down in a war situation.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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"W.J. \(Bill\) Dean \(U.K.\)." wrote in
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Fitting a transponder
would do hardly anything to reduce collision risk for most gliding in the
UK. It will only help those who can and want to fly high in wave.


I note that there are moves to have unmanned aircraft (UAVs)
flying in UK airspace, e.g.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5198364.stm

The current rules and procedures presume that all
aircraft contain functioning eyeballs and brains
that can look out the window. If they don't then
the rules and procedures have to be rethought.

Anybody see a connection with mandatory transponders?

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.). wrote:

Yes, we all see the connection.

How are they planning to avoid hang and paragliders?

By mandating mode-S + ADS-B transponders for them too.
There is some exemption clause for paragliders until
the technology catches up. Probably until some avionics
marketeer says so.

I'm really looking forward to carrying a 600W microwave
transmitter and associated battery. :-(

Iwo