Sean,
With respect, I posit that you totally miss PS 's point. What he is
suggesting is that EVERY recreational aircraft (GA, RAAus, Gliding), be
fitted with flarm. No flawed logic there! I earlier drew comparison with the
mandating of compulsory use of seat belts in motor vehicles -somewhat
controversial at the time; today an accepted fact. Mandate flarm, and
immediately its benefits compound.
Let me say that given the pace of technological development, I would expect
that in the years to come , flarm will be regarded as a rather quaint
chapter in collision avoidance. In the meantime it is the best we have, and
it is bloody good system in comparison with nothing at all!
Do however keep in mind the primary directive: LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT!
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Jorgensen-Day" <[email protected]>
To: "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mid Air collision risk
Replace "Would" with "Could" and I'll agree with you.
I seem to remember that one person on this list decided that they "would"
be
safer if they fitted a flarm to their aircraft. They forgot that the other
aircraft needs to be fitted with a flarm to.
Flawed logic!
That said a better system would appear to be a compromise with similar
systems being used across GA, RAAus and Gliding, good luck with that!
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter
Stephenson (Internode)
Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2012 5:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mid Air collision risk
Having been involved with two near hits in the last 10 years, both of
which
would have been prevented by a Flarm, it seems bloody stupid not have a
750
Euro unit not installed in *every* aircraft.
PeterS
On 22/04/2012 12:29 PM, S Smith wrote:
Greetings
If you look in the following database,
http://aviation-safety.net/index.php
which is a wiki and lists aircraft crashes around the world back to
1920's
you will find very very very very few mid-airs.
So far this year, for 896 recorded accidents there are the following
only;
3 - military, training mid-airs 2 were combat jets / 1 was
helicopters
1- GA, R22 helicopter vs Beechcraft in USA - both landed
safely.
That's it.
For the whole world.
Now I accept this database is not a complete listing,
and let's remember how many millions of flights there have been in
that time,
but as a percentage, just 1 GA mid-air out of 896 reported accidents in
last 6 months - a pretty reasonable sample size.
Maybe we should think about the causes of the other 890 too !
and get a sense of proportion.
regards
Stu
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