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Trig TT21 Transponder ... reports?
On Aug 9, 9:05*pm, Mike Schumann
wrote: On 8/9/2010 9:19 PM, brian whatcott wrote: On 8/9/2010 5:07 PM, flyingmr2 wrote: /snip/ Please, everyone stay safe and no more crashing! If we have another fatality in the west anytime soon, my wife might pull the plug on her support for this hobby./snip/ Please fly safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One way to fly safe - er, is to avoid being in the vicinity of other aircraft. Easy for me to say! That might mean no contests? Brian W Given the current turmoil with ADS-B vs. Powerflarm, etc....the smartest investment might not be any avionics at all, but a ballistic recovery chute. -- Mike Schumann Mike, with respect, it seems that you are quite fixated on ADS-B and the way FLARM was (not) introduced to the US, and that you respond to every post with that filter. I don't see the turmoil; I have a transponder, so if you have powerflarm you will see me. If you have ADS-B, flarm, or powerflarm I will see you, because I am going to have a powerflarm ASAP. So you have flarm or powerflarm you will see me again. If power traffic is a threat I will see it (their transponder). If they have ATC following, or TCAS they will see my transponder. The turmoil, is it that the exact form of what we will be using in 10 years is not clear? That seems a separate subject. And the ballistic chute, like that Cirrus had that went through the tow plane, I recall they burned on the way down, not a fun ride. It's speculation, but if you project that into next year, and that glider on tow had powerflarm it (in theory) would have alerted the glider to the incoming cirrus when it alerted to the transponder and that could have made the difference. Any way you slice it the $1,600 seems like cheap insurance to me. Brian |
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