Originally Posted by
Bagheera S
What depressing times we live in;- An ultra low cost, easy to install and operate solution can be talked up to such a high price, it becomes far cheaper to kill a GA pilot, maybe a service flight crew/s and smash up a very expensive national asset.
If you do that for every capability that is required you end up with a pretty high workload cockpit. The difference between commercial, GA and military is considerable in that Mil ac are continuously having new equipment fitted. If you had a "bolt on" collision warner, how do you give audio to the crew? If not, how do you expect a crew to be alerted to a threat.
If you have a bolt on threat Warner as well, which do you put where? How do you prioritise audio from the threat Warner and collision warner? The list goes on, but cockpit design is not as simple as "build your primary instrument scan and then bolt a bunch of stuff round the outside of it".
Believe me, no one is a bigger advocate for "quickly, cheaply" than I am, but at least some of the method isn't madness or blatant profiteering!