HI Peter,
It was 2 years ago in a club aircraft. See another post this evening from me re this. I'm a VFR plane pilot - flarm has limited usefulness to myself. I work with high end IT as a profession - Technology in my hobby is something that I just don't bother with after battling with it week on week. I was sufficiently rattled by the experience to worry about running around finding cables, downloading files and find a net connection to play with an app I really don't want to use. Btw what would the GFA done with this? "Look out the window when flying" - that's what the CAR's mandate. They certainly wouldn't have reviewed the product performance favourably, and may have chosen to look at how insidious technology can be at refocusing SA to other areas - deemed more important by the biological computer at the time - with the resulting findings and changes to standards etc etc etc. Don't get me wrong I'm all for using tools to increase information for making relevant decisions, but they also have to be relevant in policy , procedure, effect and for everyone - not just pockets of users because the price and performance is adequate to them. I made the comment earlier, unless some smart people are allowed to contribute in a technical and supported manner in creating a common accepted standard/system - across all users of the "airspace"(important point that) - one of the technologies today is going to do an imitation of the Betamax video. It goes along the lines of this: A REX flight today had a Mid Air accident at Mildura, luckily the REX flight landed with no harm to the Passengers or Crew. The plane was substantially damaged and will require repairs. The passengers suffered a 4 hour delay whilst another plane was ferried to assist. The pilots where heard to remark "We just didn't see anything on our instruments (TCAS) and it doesn't look like it was a bird. ATSB is investigating. In other news the sole pilot of a glider died today after crashing 20 Km's south of Mildura at Carwarp, Police and the Coroner have been notified Now who's system is going to be favoured here after the cause is determined....? Cheers John -----Original Message----- From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Peter Stephenson (Internode) Sent: Monday, 30 April 2012 8:12 PM To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mid Air collision risk On 30/04/2012 12:02 PM, john.mcfarlane wrote: > snip > > Upon landing I mentioned this to the relevant instructor. After all > had landed without leading I asked the glider pilots if around the > time of the launch their flarms had advised them of anything - All I > got was the passenger thought the launch release was fantastic and the > tug looked impressive! Of the 3 flarms all had provided nothing to help with SA. > Throughout the launch both aircraft would not have been further than 3 > km's apart vertically and horizontally. Hi John, I am surprised you did not download the Flarm traces of all the 3 aircraft and plot them on See You. What you describe was a significant incident and should have been reported to GFA. BTW Flarm can even synthesise tracks of adjacent gliders from other glider's Flarms should one crash; another benefit of having a Flarm. PeterS _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: <http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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