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I did fly with one and had one. The Monroy would give traffic alerts
of almost every airliner flying thousands of feet above me, and others that passed well below me. It was clear to me very quickly that the claim of "within 1500 feet" was just not the case. It sounds like you like that unit, but my opinion is that it was just more of an annoyance than useful because aircraft well above me or below me (or even some that never existed at all!) would set it off, where as I have never had that problem with this traffic scope. I think knowing the altitude of the other plane is the biggest key. As an example, I was flying 2 days ago when my traffic scope started showing range decreasing rapidly and his altitude 200 feet above me, at .6 miles I STILL did not see him so I just descended 300 feet. about 2 seconds later the Baron passed above me by 500 feet in exact opposite direction. With the Monroy I would not have known what to do but panic. I guess it comes down to personal preference and budget, because there are still some who do prefer the ADF / VOR as opposed to upgrading to GPS, in fact I was one for 6 years!! Thomas Borchert wrote in message ... BHelman, The Monroy doesn't account for altitude, so when you have a 737 flying overhead thousands of feet up the Monroy would be screaming bloody murder. Clearly, you haven't flown with the unit. This statement couldn't be more wrong. The antenna characteristics are such that traffic being more than 1500 or 2000 feet different in altitude will not be annunciated. Altitude has NEVER be a problem for us in actual operation. Whenever you get a warning for traffic close enough to be visible, when scanning outside in a sensible range, you'll spot that traffic, on our experience. Thus, I have looked at the vrx with interest from a gadget freak standpoint, but I don't think the altitude sensing would be worth that much money to me. I would, however, love to see the vr in action. |
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