"Most gliders aren't a hazard to airliners or other controlled traffic"?????
What is the basis for that claim? There's IFR traffic everywhere. The
stuff you see isn't the threat, it's the targets you don't. Anyone who
thinks that they are immune from mid-airs because of where they fly is just
rolling the dice. Yes, the odds are different in different places, but the
risk is 0 everywhere.
Mike Schumann
"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message
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Tim Mara wrote:
The other problem with transponders in gliders is the false sense of
security it implies....to many it is "assumed" that this is like a shield
keeping everyone else aware of their presents as they go happily flying
along with their heads down looking at the wiz-bang flight
computer...this leads to more near misses and occasional hits than
electronics can avoid....I know of no Cherokee 140's or Cezna 172's
flying with TCAS on board
How many transponder equipped gliders, transponder on, have been hit by a
non-TCAS equipped general aviation aircraft? Is this really a problem? Can
it be addressed by training?
....and I also know of a lot more glider pilots who will insist they only
turn on the transponder when they are flying down the glideslope of major
airports..
Sounds like a good start, doesn't it? I mean, we wouldn't be having this
discussion if the Reno glider had turned the transponder in that
situation. Again, perhaps a training issue.
Transponders are not the fix all for the problem,
In a sense, it would fix "all" the problem, if we think colliding with
airliners is our problem.
but mandatory transponders in k6's, 2-33's and 126's will certainly have
an impact on the sport as we "knew" it.
Yes, so I'm hoping any requirement for transponders recognizes that most
gliders aren't a hazard to airliners and other "controlled" traffic.
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