PCAS - Portable Collision Avoidance System

my glider club lies
inside the Mode C veil of PHL, because an active military air base is 5
miles away, and because there are several airways that lie within
several miles of us.

-John

Great perspective.
PCAS or no PCAS, the future for us glider pilots will be the same.
EXTINCTION.

rk

"jcarlyle" wrote in message
oups.com...
One question - in your flight experience, does the way the R5 combines
threats having the same squawk code on the same line of the display,
showing only the closest threat's distance, and flip-flopping the
various threat altitudes, cause you any confusion?

-John

No, that hasn't been an issue.

When I first got the R-5, I tried using the included headset adapter for
audio warnings in the Mooney. The sound level would not match the radio
output well, too loud as I recall. Thought about adding a resistor to drop
it some, but then decided that the bright red alarm LED, when right in front
of the pilot, is all that's needed to get my attention.

In the glider, the self contained beeper can be heard as well as the bright
LED. I believe the Proxalert was initially designed with gliders in mind.

bumper

Marc Ramsey wrote:

But doesn't TCAS gives you resolution without the need to spot the
threat?
I was under the impression that it does.

Only if the threat is also equipped with TCAS...

Marc

A TCAS equipped aircraft with be given a resolution advisory for a
threat aircraft that has a mode C or Mode S transponder. The threat
aircraft does not need to have TCAS, and does not need to be
interrogated by an ATC radar site.

When both involved aircraft have TCAS the avoidance maneuver is agreed
between them. If only one has TCAS it decides what to do on it's own.

Andy

After flying with the ZAON collision avoidance system,we became one of their
dealers. You can find it on our web site listed below.

It was very interesting to have the device give warnings for aircraft I did
not see.

It works exactly as advertised, & seems well worth the cost, especially when
flying near high density areas such as we fly.
It receives it's data from other nearby aircraft equipped with a
transponder. Our glider also has a transponder.

Tom Knauff
Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies

www.eglider.org