On Jul 22, 7:23*pm, 5Z wrote:

I wonder how prevalent this attitude is outside of airsports and "low
end" general aviation?

Very!

I have worked in this industry for many years, have been involved in a
lot a new development programs, and have spent many hours in flight
test. It is my observation that the better the flight deck
instrumentation the less time crews spend looking outside for
traffic. The exception to that is for HUD equipped aircraft but now,
for biz jets, the IPFD with synthetic vision puts more info head down
than head up so the bias is back inside again.

Many of the pilots flying this stuff are unaware that aircraft without
transponders are sharing the airspace with them and rely almost
completely on TCAS and ATC traffic calls.

You will be less likely to be run down by a FedEx widebody and they
are slowly equipping that fleet with HUD and FLIR and those aircraft
do not have the head down distraction of synthetic vision. At least
one pilot is likely to be looking outside using the HUD.

Fair or not the burden of collision avoidance rests with the glider
pilot.

Andy