The other pilot involved did not seem as worried as I was but did wonder
what was going on when I turned in on him. All that would be needed to make
that situation dangerous would be if he was practicing lookout in another
direction.
Chad Nowak
From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia."<aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia."<aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] .Flarm antenna
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:57:20 +1000
At 09:18 PM 1/02/2007, you wrote:
To put it simply, it sounds similar to the incident at Benalla. I had
someone to my left and behind at about the same altitude. Even though the
red light would have been on I don't remember seeing it. I guess I had my
eye's outside of the cockpit. Anyway I looked left to do a 180. With no
traffic sighted I started a sharp turn. Straight away the alarm sounded
so I immediatly straightened up and saw the red light. I did a turn to
the right and then left to find the other glider only to see it behind and
close.
Was it a close call maybe..........maybe not, but I'm glad Flarm stopped
the situation before I got to find out.
Chad Nowak
Chad,
Thank you for that. Obviously the other glider was FLARM equipped. Did you
talk to the pilot later? If so what was his take on the situation? Did he
think there was a bad situation at any time?
From your description of your manouevers I'd expect a glider behind would
have caught up somewhat by the time you completed them.
BTW I asked two pilots with lots of experience flying "in the system" and
they aren't aware of any TCAS caused accidents.
Mike
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