Airplane pilots don't bother looking out...

On Jul 23, 1:15*pm, Steve Koerner wrote:
If that gun has 1,000,000 chambers but only one bullet, you spin it for
randomness, and you pull the trigger once an hour while in flight,

OK, Jim. *I don't know where you got your numbers but lets run them
out...

Roughly, there is perhaps 5000 glider pilots in the US doing say 50
hours per year. * So your million to one proposition might not be so
hot if the statistical result is a collision with an airliner every
four years. * We need to get into the ten million to one zone or
better and that is probably what widespread use of transponder will
accomplish. * Thank you for helping me make my point.

Ya but the number of gliders regularly sharing airspace with airliners
and business jets is probably more like 1000. or less. maybe way
less. I do my best to keep a look out as the other guy but there are
times in airplanes and gliders where i realize i am too much heads
down. it happens to all of us, no one is without blame. electronics
can help, or be more of a heads down distraction. I do have a garmin
transponder in the garage to get installed in the Cherokee. I need to
get that done. it's going to be a power hog but it was cheap. I don't
have an extra $2500 laying around for the latest gizmo.