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The electronic technology isn't there yet.
Who wants "the boy who cried WOLF" in the cockpit, or the need to consider whether you're being interrogated by RADAR for the thing to work? Something akin to the Swiss unmentionable-on-this-forum device is needed in all aircraft. They fail too, mostly due to bad antennas. But at least you know it when the towplane or the glider launching after you are not on the visual display. Heads up! Jim On Feb 20, 3:02*pm, Bruno wrote: I have had plenty of alerts when the target is at the same altitude as myself when the unit is working. *This includes my towplane and other aircraft in the same gaggle (circling with the air force gliders at a contest near radar). *In normal operation you never pick up yourself if you have a transponder. Bruno - B4 |
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On Feb 21, 10:53*am, JS wrote:
The electronic technology isn't there yet. * Who wants "the boy who cried WOLF" in the cockpit, or the need to consider whether you're being interrogated by RADAR for the thing to work? * Something akin to the Swiss unmentionable-on-this-forum device is needed in all aircraft. They fail too, mostly due to bad antennas. But at least you know it when the towplane or the glider launching after you are not on the visual display. Heads up! Jim On Feb 20, 3:02*pm, Bruno wrote: I have had plenty of alerts when the target is at the same altitude as myself when the unit is working. *This includes my towplane and other aircraft in the same gaggle (circling with the air force gliders at a contest near radar). *In normal operation you never pick up yourself if you have a transponder. Bruno - B4 Jim The false alarm/"boy who cries wolf" problem like what Andy is describing appears to be very rare with the Zaon MRX. My experience is if the MRX warns of a threat you get your eyes outside looking for it. It is (literally) eye opening how much stuff an MRX can find that you might otherwise miss. All these traffic awareness technologies, including Flarm (there I said it!) have limitations. The main limitation with Flarm is not having a magic wand to wave to get Flarm units installed in other aircraft, and many of those other aircraft have transponders today. And while it would be great to see things like PowerFLARM (PCAS, ADS-B 1090ES data-in and yes FLARM!) installed in the USA glider fleet, I expect you will never be able to convince a significant number of GA aircraft in the USA to have Flarm anything (including combined products like a PowerFLARM). Darryl Darryl |
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