Originally Posted by Comjam
Here's hoping the CAA introduce mandatory Mode S transponders for all light aircraft and gliders flying anywhere in UK airspace. I genuinely can't understand why you guys don't want to be electronically visible to the rest of us. Luddites
Bully!
Methinks the laddie protest too much. Even Hell hath not the fury of a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.
"Two hundred Lanzaroti bound lager-louts mow down defenceless glider pilot" probably isn't the headline we would read but in the event it would be quite appropriate.
What do you reckon to the notion that the beneficiary pays? In that nobody needed transponders until CAT got so big (and our precious government sold half NATS to CAT) that they muscled in on the open FIR the beneficiaries ain't GA for sure.