Originally Posted by
double_barrel
Exactly. That's why I thought it would be nice to glance at 2 numbers that tell me all I need to know, then I know where the hazard is and can immediately get my eyes out. I don't want to be fiddling with a chart or ipad.
Sorry, no - you know where they've reported they were. If it's a matter of a few miles when potential closing speeds could be 240+kts, then we're talking rather less than 30 seconds between identifying a potential conflict and having to avoid it - time best used in a visual scan, rather than trying to identify a precise position in a dynamically changing environment. Note this advice has come from at least 2 people on this thread with a good few thousand hours each operating in Class G airspace at a variety of levels and speeds...