At 09:18 PM 1/02/2007, you wrote:
To put it simply, it sounds similar to the incident at Benalla. I
had someone to my left and behind at about the same altitude. Even
though the red light would have been on I don't remember seeing
it. I guess I had my eye's outside of the cockpit. Anyway I looked
left to do a 180. With no traffic sighted I started a sharp
turn. Straight away the alarm sounded so I immediatly straightened
up and saw the red light. I did a turn to the right and then left
to find the other glider only to see it behind and close.
Was it a close call maybe..........maybe not, but I'm glad Flarm
stopped the situation before I got to find out.
Chad Nowak
Chad,
Thank you for that. Obviously the other glider was FLARM equipped.
Did you talk to the pilot later? If so what was his take on the
situation? Did he think there was a bad situation at any time?
From your description of your manouevers I'd expect a glider behind
would have caught up somewhat by the time you completed them.
BTW I asked two pilots with lots of experience flying "in the system"
and they aren't aware of any TCAS caused accidents.
Mike
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