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November 25th 04, 10:04 PM
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"Mark James Boyd" wrote in message news:41a63818$1@darkstar... Peter Seddon peterdotseddonattiscalidotcodotuk wrote: "Gliders in the U.K. were involved in 10 near-midairs In the US, I'm not aware of any ACTUAL midair collisions between a glider and non-glider that are more than 4 miles from an airport. How hard have you looked? Ask Chip Gardner how far he was from an airport when he got hit. So there hasn't been one yet, and it's very hard to tell how close we've REALLY been to having a glider-airplane midair that wasn't very near an airport traffic pattern or approach. I'm guessing this is trivial, and requiring transponders in gliders is a solution looking for a problem. A few years ago an AmericaWest airliner 30 miles out of Phoenix nearly hit a glider. A flight attendant had her leg broken during the rapid evasive manuever. 
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