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On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 3:15:06 PM UTC-4, Benedict Smith wrote:
The Vulcan bomber is installing PF this spring and the RAF
BBMF
have installed it in all their aircraft.

Is this to avoid transponder-less gliders or are they installing PF to avoid collision with other bombers in close formation flying? I wonder what sorts of testing they did.

At 01:26 08 May 2015, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 3:15:06 PM UTC-4, Benedict Smith wrote:
The Vulcan bomber is installing PF this spring and the RAF
BBMF
have installed it in all their aircraft.

Is this to avoid transponder-less gliders or are they installing PF to
avoid collision with other bombers in close formation flying? I wonder
what sorts of testing they did.

Nothing quite so exciting, both the Vulcan and the BBMF planes fly in air
show displays, this is mostly to provide increased public tracking and also

because of the number of smaller aircraft associated with air shows.
The RAF have been quite encouraging in their support for public tracking of

their display flights.