Malibuflyer wrote:
- I Display the traffic on a GTN650 and a G500txi – so going all Garmin has an integratio Benefit (at least it does not harm Integration).
Stupid question but will any of those display on a GNS430W?
They all weigh 4kgs :-)
Peter wrote:
Whether they actually vary the power, or just implement a software limit on displaying targets I don’t know.
They actually limit the power – but that limitation is done by software.
From here
Silvaire wrote:
It has completely revolutionized the ability to avoid other traffic
Is that actually correct? These systems gives the ability to see traffic you otherwise wouldn’t see. The traffic is the same, and posed no problems when you didn’t see it. Now you do see it, why should it suddenly become a problem? IMO these devices are mostly good solutions to a problem that hardly exists.
and posed no problems when you didn’t see it.
That’s not how it works at all.
LeSving wrote:
The traffic is the same, and posed no problems when you didn’t see it.
That’s true for traffic which is not on a collision path, but what about all collisions occurring because both aircraft do not see each other?
This is a perfect example which could possibly have been avoided with a conspicuity system.
LeSving wrote:
Now you do see it, why should it suddenly become a problem?
A while ago a nice gentleman did call here regarding satellite weather. For over a decade he was flying his light twin and assumed more or less thunderstroms are not that of an issue. then ti turned out he had just been lucky to never really hit the bad part of one. That did eventually happen and he changed his mind.
Meteorites and such are so rare we can simply ignore them and if they hit it is very bad luck. Traffic, thunderstroms, icing etc. also are unlikely to cause harm but the risk is high enough we have to watch out for those all the time and use whatever equipment we can to bring down the risk.
Statistics show that mid air collisions are among the rarest kind of accidents. They hardly occur at all.
etn wrote:
This is a perfect example which could possibly have been avoided with a conspicuity system.
Perhaps, but the safety recommendations in that report includes 6 items.
First of all it is a perfect example of points 1 to 5. Basically making information accessible to private pilots, and improvement of that information.
One side benefit of traffic awareness, is that when you want to cross a piece of airspace, you can have a good idea of what the traffic situation is like first!
LeSving wrote:
Statistics show that mid air collisions are among the rarest kind of accidents. They hardly occur at all.
Maybe that is down to all the efforts we already do. But you are right it will depend a lot on where you fly. In many parts of the world there will be no traffic at all or maybe one single aircraft, you hear it on the radio and it might be alright. But then you have areas with such a migh traffic intensity not having any equipment to avoid it is playing hit and miss.
