Re:Pilots Say That the F-16-Cessna Crash Illustrates a Civil...
by marvin on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:39AM
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For gliders, FLARM is a radio-based system that also takes turning rates into account. It alerts the pilot visually and audibly 20 seconds before a possible impact would happen. In my experience it works great even in very congested airspace such as when circling in a thermal. it's not perfect, but it's a very good complement to looking out the window.
It only tells you about other FLARM-using aircraft, though. (Some also look for transponder-carrying aircraft).
Re:Pilots Say That the F-16-Cessna Crash Illustrates a Civil...
by pjc50 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:26AM
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There's an ongoing campaign by some people in Scotland to get the RAF to fix their TCAS after several deaths. http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2015/jan/mod-say-raf-co...
>It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped with a corresponding active transponder, independent of air traffic control, and warns pilots of the presence of other transponder-equipped aircraft which may present a threat of mid-air collision (MAC).
> The next step beyond identifying potential collisions is automatically negotiating a mutual avoidance manoeuver between the two (or more) conflicting aircraft.
This works along side the ADS-B broadcasts for generally knowing where other planes are without ground based radar - however that's not going to be fully implemented until 2020 in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...