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rwaltman
08-30-2012, 12:59 PM
A nice video showing FLARM in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwj6DA8OITU
(Skip the first minute)

Roberto.

Timberwolf
08-31-2012, 08:02 AM
Looks like if it were anything other than a glider it could have been a worse outcome. They were well within a half mile before it alerted. For two aircraft with a closing velocity of 400kts, they could have smashed into each other.

rwaltman
08-31-2012, 01:28 PM
Which Kitfox model would that be?
Yes, you are right about head-on courses, but in other scenarios, such as two planes converging into the landing pattern, etc. there would be much more time available to "detect and avoid".

Timberwolf
08-31-2012, 02:17 PM
True. But I just think there's better options out there that give a much bigger heads up. I never even gave TAS or TCAS a though until I started flying military and had all of the goodies available to me. It was a real eye opener how many IFR and VFR aircraft there were around me. But I'm sure something is better than nothing out there.