How about the original Mark One Eyeball - most folk
have two inbuilt units and they provide a damn sure
fire way to avoid a collision.

LOOKOUT!

Gav


At 10:48 19 October 2003, Thierry wrote:
Hello,
At 13.8v the ProXalert R5 device needs only ONE watt
compared to
nearly 5 watts for the Trafficscope(c). It displays
up to three
threats including squawk, altitude and distance. It
also features a
built in altitude alerter.
It will be available mid November. See our Website

www.proxalert.com

Have safe flight,

Regards,


'John Morgan' wrote in message news:...
'Eric Greenwell' wrote in message
http://www.ryan-tcad.com/products/traffic_9900B.html

It's the only TCAD system I'm aware of.


Eric ('n all),

There's also 'Skywatch', I think by BF Goodrich. Same
problem though,
expensive and consumes too much power for a glider.
What would be *really*
good is if they came out with a portable ADS-B for
cheap! But since that
won't happen soon - or ever, the only game left I'm
aware of is passive
transponder detectors . . . and these have gotten
mixed reviews until just
recently. The following is cut from a post on the
Mooney tech group:

'Just got my TrafficScope TPAS VRX from Surecheck
last week and
had a chance to fly with it.
Absolutely a first-rate product!!! Much, much better/different
than the earlier TPAS RX-110 version.

http://www.surecheck.net . . .'

The problem with previous passive detectors is they
were based on signal
strength only, no bearing or altitude info. That,
and some users experienced
a lot of falses. The new version mentioned above still
doesn't give bearing,
but it *does* give altitude of the target and since
it decodes this info,
can eliminate much of the falsing, alerts from overhead
airliners etc.

I have no connection with the above company and don't
have one of these
things to play with - yet. At $1200 . . . figured
I'd wait some until there
are more happy customers.
--
bumper - ZZ
'Dare to be different . . . circle in sink.'
to reply, the last half is right to left





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