This looks interesting:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/in-focus-the-wing-is-the-thing-for-aviation-partners-371008/
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On 30/04/2012, at 9:37 PM, "john.mcfarlane"
wrote:
> 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 - Tec
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 i
On 30/04/2012 8:56 PM, john.mcfarlane wrote:
Hi Urs,
How do you explain the other 2 aircraft - the on tow glider was only 120ft
behind me and had no idea of the other glider.
This is a club aircraft - downloading and uploading files for remote post
event review/analysis to determine servicea
Hi Urs,
How do you explain the other 2 aircraft - the on tow glider was only 120ft
behind me and had no idea of the other glider.
This is a club aircraft - downloading and uploading files for remote post
event review/analysis to determine serviceability will not work!
You are seriously undermi
At 08:42 PM 30/04/2012, you wrote:
BTW Flarm can even synthesise tracks of adjacent gliders from other
glider's Flarms should one crash; another benefit of having a Flarm.
Only if the range happens to be good enough which clearly may not be
the case as in the case John is talking about.
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 launc
At 07:13 PM 30/04/2012, you wrote:
My argument is that these devices COULD prevent a collision but
cannot be relied on to ENSURE it does not happen, that is up to the pilots.
How many examples are there out there of aircraft colliding when
fitted with such devices, in these case
Gary,
I did not miss PS's point. If you refer to my 3rd para I did suggest
that there may be a better compromise system.
MB picked up on this.
The flawed logic that I am referring to is; If only one aircraft is
fitted with a safety device that relies on other aircraft havin