Thomas --

The real problem with these arguments that "mine is better than yours"
(leaving aside the personal attacks) is that few pilots have ever compared
their favorite unit to a good solid reference. They see it point to traffic
and they see the traffic and decide it saved their bacon (and maybe it did).
But what they don't see is the "ones that got away." As most pilots know,
it's not unusual not to see traffic even when ATC points it out to you. If
your traffic device doesn't point it out and ATC doesn't point it out and
you don't see it, you don't know that it "missed" and so you have no way of
evaluating its hit rate, which is what you really need to know to evaluate a
unit.

As you know from the original article, we used the TIS traffic uplink
display that showed all traffic with a transponder within an altitude range
near ours, so we knew where all the pertinent traffic was and were able to
compare that to each unit. Without a test like that, saying that one unit is
better than another is essentially meaningless.

Jon



"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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BHelman,

just as Mr. Spencer says.


Huh? When? How?

I'm so happy that I have finally found the source of true objectivity -
you! Excuse my while I LMAO.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)