clicky
basically as title, I am thinking of buying one, and I know what all your arguments will be, and that is "look out the damn window", well that is all very well but if all parties concerned are not looking out their window then you can get yourself in the proverbial !!!!!, yesterday for example, after climbing out of EGxx, levelled off, then passenger said "did you see that? we nearly had a mid-air collision", I basically saw nothing, apparently a C172 missed us by 50ft, flying over us from our 4 o'clock, I was keeping a good look out (so I thought) but was he? same as when you are driving a car, you can be the best driver in the world but you cannot control other human beings.
Now after recent events I guess you could say I am a little hasty and that I have been spooked a tad, maybe I have, I am not afraid to admit, but the biggest thing that scares the living !!!!! out of me is leaving my 2 young daughters without a dad knowing they will grow up having never really known me, my mate was killed along with his sister before Christmas last year and he left behind his 5yr old daughter, even she will grow up without really knowing him.
I'm digressing a tad now but you get the general idea, and with the introduction of Mode S (no flaming please) these will do part of the job even more? basically it can be a great aid to collision avoidance but never substitute the good ol' eyeballs out the window but as it can be seen above, anything that can warn you of traffic proximity has to be a good thing?
Thoughts & comments please, and leave the negative flaming responses at home
Dean