Originally Posted by
BronteExperimental
Any of the newer avionics would have had PFDs lit up like a Christmas tree in this situation with audio alerts to match - providing there was indeed ADSB out. It seems that there was at best only one ADSB out here and even that is unclear.
I’ve flown behind IN/OUT for years and can attest that it’s extremely accurate and very functional in busy class D airspace . It’ll happily paint a dozen targets at a time all within a mile.
no need to have you’re head in the cockpit. It just calls them out.
Given the amount of pushback from industry just to introduce OUT, itll be ages before we get an IN/OUT mandate.
Maybe this incident will slowly move the needle.
The reality is that these things 'help' but also introduce new traps. The collision rates in the US are quite high despite having great radar and adsb coverage, and whats more a high percentage hapoen within actual controlled airspace. So ADSB IN/OUT helps, but its no magic bullet for the problem. And a lot of cases come down to lack of SA, poor communication and in some cases a reliance the automation would warn them.
Remarks like 'pfds being lit up' leads to pilots ignoring the chaff, so the warnings have to be timely, accurate and not spurious. I expect to get TAs close to busy airports, and once on final RAs are inhibited so all you get is alerts.