It h Rob Moore
On 30/04/2012, at 9:37 PM, "john.mcfarlane" <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Peter, > > It was 2 years ago in a club aircraft. See another post this evening from me > re this. > > I'm a VFR plane pilot - flarm has limited usefulness to myself. I work with > high end IT as a profession - Technology in my hobby is something that I just > don’t bother with after battling with it week on week. > > I was sufficiently rattled by the experience to worry about running around > finding cables, downloading files and find a net connection to play with an > app I really don’t want to use. > > Btw what would the GFA done with this? "Look out the window when flying" - > that’s what the CAR's mandate. They certainly wouldn't have reviewed the > product performance favourably, and may have chosen to look at how insidious > technology can be at refocusing SA to other areas - deemed more important by > the biological computer at the time – with the resulting findings and changes > to standards etc etc etc. > > Don’t get me wrong I'm all for using tools to increase information for making > relevant decisions, but they also have to be relevant in policy , procedure, > effect and for everyone – not just pockets of users because the price and > performance is adequate to them. > > I made the comment earlier, unless some smart people are allowed to > contribute in a technical and supported manner in creating a common accepted > standard/system – across all users of the “airspace”(important point that) - > one of the technologies today is going to do an imitation of the Betamax > video. It goes along the lines of this: > > A REX flight today had a Mid Air accident at Mildura, luckily the REX flight > landed with no harm to the Passengers or Crew. The plane was substantially > damaged and will require repairs. The passengers suffered a 4 hour delay > whilst another plane was ferried to assist. The pilots where heard to remark > "We just didn't see anything on our instruments (TCAS) and it doesn’t look > like it was a bird. ATSB is investigating. > > In other news the sole pilot of a glider died today after crashing 20 Km’s > south of Mildura at Carwarp, Police and the Coroner have been notified > > Now who’s system is going to be favoured here after the cause is > determined……….? > > Cheers > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > Stephenson (Internode) > Sent: Monday, 30 April 2012 8:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mid Air collision risk > > > > On 30/04/2012 12:02 PM, john.mcfarlane wrote: > > snip > > > > Upon landing I mentioned this to the relevant instructor. After all > > had landed without leading I asked the glider pilots if around the > > time of the launch their flarms had advised them of anything - All I > > got was the passenger thought the launch release was fantastic and the > > tug looked impressive! Of the 3 flarms all had provided nothing to help > > with SA. > > Throughout the launch both aircraft would not have been further than 3 > > km's apart vertically and horizontally. > Hi John, > I am surprised you did not download the Flarm traces of all the 3 aircraft > and plot them on See You. What you describe was a significant incident and > should have been reported to GFA. > > BTW Flarm can even synthesise tracks of adjacent gliders from other glider's > Flarms should one crash; another benefit of having a Flarm. > PeterS > _______________________________________________ > 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
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