At 06:06 PM 31/01/2007, you wrote:
I have not read the German incident but I am sure we will see others and
possibly in Australia we might have a collision between 2 flarm equipped
aircraft - I hope not - the technology does not guarantee safety - we all
know that but I have equally many emails, personal conversations and even a
few on this forum who have said that flarm may have prevented them from
having an accident and that's what it is all about, providing some sort of
pre warning or display of traffic. Even TCAS with is high price tag in
commercial airliners has its faults and has resulted in accidents.
What accidents were caused by TCAS? It also comes with training for
the pilots who are told about the logic it uses.
I never did get a sensible answer to " if the threat is at 2 o'clock
but on a trajectory that will cause the final collision from 11
o'clock what will the FLARM show"
This was brought up on the FLARM site on the forum.
Harry
brought up a point on his accident, had he known the guy was behind him he
would not have hooked into the thermal or if he did probably with extra
caution.
You need to see the flight logs superimposed before making any
comments on that. Have they been generally released?
Mike
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