Eric Greenwell
January 17th 05, 09:51 PM
I'd like to hear what pilots with TPAS think about them; for example:
* can you always avoid airliners and smaller airplanes?
* are these a good/lousy substitute for a transponder?
* how do they work out in the "highly congested areas" Tim mentions?
* do you wish you had a transponder anyway?
* is it distracting?
* is it useful/worthless when flying with transponder equipped gliders?
* are the $300 units worth it?
* are $900 units worth it?
I have a transponder, but maybe I should have one more gadget (you'll
know I'm going senile when you see me _removing_ a gadget every six
months, instead of adding one!)
Tim Mara wrote:
> if you're not talking with ATC in these highly congested areas you are still
> putting yourself and others at risk.........not every other plane in this
> area will be talking with ATC or have a TCAS system on board ...... if you
> want simple and inexpensive traffic avoidance look beyond simply squawking
> in the blind but look also at the TPAS systems....far better than having the
> Fed's tell us we all need to have transponders installed to fly "anywhere"
> tim
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* can you always avoid airliners and smaller airplanes?
* are these a good/lousy substitute for a transponder?
* how do they work out in the "highly congested areas" Tim mentions?
* do you wish you had a transponder anyway?
* is it distracting?
* is it useful/worthless when flying with transponder equipped gliders?
* are the $300 units worth it?
* are $900 units worth it?
I have a transponder, but maybe I should have one more gadget (you'll
know I'm going senile when you see me _removing_ a gadget every six
months, instead of adding one!)
Tim Mara wrote:
> if you're not talking with ATC in these highly congested areas you are still
> putting yourself and others at risk.........not every other plane in this
> area will be talking with ATC or have a TCAS system on board ...... if you
> want simple and inexpensive traffic avoidance look beyond simply squawking
> in the blind but look also at the TPAS systems....far better than having the
> Fed's tell us we all need to have transponders installed to fly "anywhere"
> tim
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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA