On Aug 18, 4:41*pm, sisu1a wrote:
Boy, I don't like the sound of this. Bas enough we have to share open
sky with powered UAV's in ever increasing numbers, now the possibility
of sharing thermals too? Yikes. Mars is sounding better every day!

It would indeed yield the highly coveted 'thermal sniffer' (probably
the very instrument Johnson described in Kemp's video), but to me
would not at all be worth the price... (soaring with UAV's)

Violently Opposed,
-Paul

Once all UK gliders are equipped with Mode-S transponders,
the UAVs will be able to use gliders to act as thermal sniffers,
and will then come and join us in the thermal