Larry Flesner wrote: > Equipping with ADS-B out also might scare the hell out of me.
I had an eye-opening experience yesterday. I was flying south to photograph some earth dam construction I was interested in near Birmingham, and took off in "marginal VFR" weather, which was nothing more than lots of puffy little clouds I had to dodge. I also had to go around Huntsville airspace because the KR2 can't climb that high that quickly, and there was a particularly tall cloud in that direction anyway. I was tuned to HSV approach just to hear what was going on, even though I was staying clear of HSV airspace and clouds. I heard him advising another plane about my direction and altitude, and the other pilot said he was IMC at the moment anyway, so couldn't see me regardless. Then I got a call from Approach, by tail number, asking if I was aware of the other traffic! I acknowledged that I had him "on the scope", had been watching him, was well above and out of his way, and thanked him for the oversight. ADS-b is really cool in so many ways, but that one was a bit unnerving.
I also discovered something cool in the iFlyGPS software on my Android. There's a data field ("instrument") called "Altimeter Setting" that you can add to the display, which shows the barometric pressure at the nearest ADSB reporting station. So you always know what your altimeter should be set to, rather than having to check around local stations to get that. This means less wandering all over the sky to me, which is always good....
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