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November 18th 17, 12:26 PM
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737 vs glider
On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 1:30:58 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:
Some of you seem to think the military doesn't care about midairs and is nonchalant about zooming around at low level. That is totally wrong - dead is dead whether you are in a 1-26 or an F-35! . . . If you don't have either a transponder or a PowerFLARM in you glider, you are a big part of the problem. Kirk 66 snip What he said. I've had transponders in all the gliders I've owned since 1996, and for sure the military guys ARE paying attention! Once while ridge soaring on a ridge in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley, I spotted a couple of jets right off the deck coming in my general direction (yes, the xponder was blinking lilke all get-out). I watched both of them swing away, rock there wings at me, and drop right back down on their course. The Curmudgeon 
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