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Thomas Borchert wrote:

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I know all that. And I knew someone would play semantics.

:-)


When I wrote "onboard radar" I was thinking about good old primary
radar. You know why? Context. The average layman has no idea about the
workings of TCAS. He's thinking about that big antenna in the nose of
the airplane. That is what they think detects traffic. And that is
strictly for weather (and ground).

btw (flogging the dead horse even more), on some military aircraft, there
is a variant of a commercial weather radar system that is used to detect
other aircraft. The system's primary (no pun) purpose is still weather
detection and depiction, but it also has a skin paint mode.

Merry Christmas

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Bob Noel
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