TCAS like options

Michelle,

I just want to know if the airplane is in front of me or
behind me and at what altitude.


Well, for the last part (altitude - and distance), you'll have to sepnd
less than 1000 $ - the Monroy ATD-300 and the Surecheck portable units
are your option.

For any kind of direction, think upwards of 7000 bucks and installed
units. The Ryan and BFGoodrich (or whatever they call themselves these
days) units do that.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Peter R. wrote:
But, your information may convince me to bring down the global volume level
of these messages a notch or two.

Probably a good idea. Particularly with noise cancelling headsets, the
alerts don't have to be loud to get one's attention. The woman's voice
is sufficiently different to be "obvious" (to me, at least).

Your comment about annunciation priorities is an interesting one. You
should send some email to Garmin support and make a feature request.
I've made a few myself, including reducing the minimum altitude
deviation warning from 200 feet to something like 50-100 feet,
selectable in 10' increments. I want to know I'm drifting before ATC
tells me.

Of course, with the whole of Garmin's engineering staff working on the
G1000, all of the other products -- GTX330 included -- are being treated
like orphans at this point. Who knows when they'll get around to fixing
this stuff.

Doug, please take solace in the fact that I am someone who still takes
complete responsibility for my own actions. Of course, I cannot vouch for
anyone else who reads your post here so I certainly understand your
disclaimer.

In a public forum, I've found I can't be too confident about how
information will be used (or misused). As you correctly surmised, the
disclaimer was directed at the group in general, more than you specifically.

Safe flying,

-Doug

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Doug Vetter, CFIMEIA

http://www.dvcfi.com
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Peter R. wrote:

TIS demonstrated it's worth to me in the first ten minutes I flew with
it. I departed from the radio shop on a hazy day and even though I
was getting flight following the thing showed an approaching aircraft
at my altitude.


I am very happy with my TIS as well, especially in the very hazy
weather in the northeast US. I have a Garmin GTX 330 transponder that
feeds its traffic data to both a GNS430 and an MX-20 moving map.

After almost one year of flying with it, the only two complaints about
TIS that I have are the relatively limited coverage areas outside of
the northeast coastal megalopolis



ADS-B is rolling out on the entire East Coast. http://www.flyadsb.com/.

For once my home state, North Carolina, is looking forward and has
already established coverage over 95% of the state and is looking into
ways to get the rest (primarily mountainous areas).

Like the others I have come to the opinion that the current portable
traffic alerts don't have the power (or the position info) to do more
than alarm me, though knowing the altitude might be helpful... Near
airports where there are many transponders the unit is often of no
value.... I have decided not to use one at this time... What I have
seen is folks who become dependent upon the gadgetry to the point of
compulsion ( not that you will or would)...

denny

I have had the Garmin 330 mode S coupled to the Garmin 430 for a year.
I never realized how close to other small planes you can get without
seeing them! Big iron is easy to see at 2 or 3 miles bit us small
stuff can remain invisible at a mile or less depending on the sun, haze
etc. Sure would be good if the area of coverage was expanded.

Also, why didn't Garmin have a "Traffic Available" message to
complement the "Unavilable" message?

Chuck

Chuck wrote:

Also, why didn't Garmin have a "Traffic Available" message to
complement the "Unavilable" message?

Now don't even think of suggesting that one to Garmin. :-) The
doggone unit will never stop talking!

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Peter

http://www.portableavionics.com/avionics/index.html I have this one,
and will not fly without it or TIS. I used the monroy for about a
month and returned it because it was just not accurate with range or
altitude, then on the final flight it started smoking really bad and
burned out.

Welcome back. Long time, no hear ;-)

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Denny,

Like the others I have come to the opinion


Not all others. I disagree. Strongly.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)