There should never be a poor visibilty flight, we fly under VFR rules. JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Rules for using Flarm
> I think common sense should be applied. > > In unobscured air with good visibility the alarm going off > just serves to keep your eyes open and a glance at the Flarm > to ensure that no-one is in your blind spots. See and avoid > should work quite well in these situations. > > In the situation with poor visibility and a warning of a > head on collision, then why can't the glider with the head > on-collision warning break to their right (with the > exception being a poor visibilty ridge flight)? In the > situation where both aircraft are approaching head on, > collision is avoided. In the instance of a glider overtaking > another from behind, the collsion is avoided (the glider > with the rear collision warning takes no action). > > > > > > > I see a potential problem in a busy gaggle at a comp where > > the Flarm can be going off almost all the time. I love > > it as a safety device in these circumstances, but if I > > had to avoid every warning I couldn't see I could never > > be in the thermal in the first place! > > > > Tom > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Richard Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in > > Australia." <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:59 PM > > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Rules for using Flarm > > > > > > > There has been some recent discussion over a glass of > > > Red on how we should be using our Flarms. > > > > > > As glider pilots have been trained to lookout and when > > > they see a threat then they take avoiding action. > > > > > > We have been told of an incident when two gliders were > > > in a head on collision situation as warned by the Flarm, > > > they were in a near cloud base situation and openly > > > confess to not taking avoidance action until they > > actually saw one another. That action resulted in a save > > > but it was very close. > > > > > > I would like to see some debate on setting rules on how > > > we use Flarm. Do we > > > say the rule is that we use it to help spot other > > > gliders (the old see and avoid model) or do we get > > > ourselves trained into automatically taking avoidance > > action even before we spot the other glider? > > > > If there is a consensus that we use the latter then how > > is it implemented. > > > > Richard Robinson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > To check or change subscription details, visit: > > > > > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > Checked by AVG. > > > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1388 - > > > Release Date: 20/04/2008 3:01 PM > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > [email protected] > > To check or change subscription details, visit: > > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
