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Originally Posted by Rod1
If you really want to improve your lookout go fly gliders for a few years or get an ex member of the ROC to help you.
That would not help much with the issues of blind spots and relative speeds that I'm concerned about.
Originally Posted by Rod1
The CAA started out with “everyone must fit mode s” and finished up agreeing this was not technically possible. I realize that is inconvenient, as mandatory transponders and TCAS would be very convenient for you, but it is not going to happen. I say this not from the point of view of being anti tec, but from the point of view that the majority of flying machines cannot fit the devices.
Could a remote mount transponder be a technological solution to the problem in the lightest powered aircraft? There should be space for an on/off switch on any panel, which would suffice if the unit only squawked a fixed code. That code should be reserved for such devices, so that ATC would know their limitations. The market for such a transponder must be larger than that for the GTX330, so it shouldn't be too hard to persuade a manufacturer to make them, and the extra simplicity should reduce cost and weight.
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