Controllers, how do gliders show up on your screens?
In Holland, they required all gliders to carry and use transponders, which so cluttered up the screens they then asked them to restrict use. Do you think gliders should use transponders?
Can anyone in your line of work tell me how do gliders show up? Especially traveling in gaggles? Enroute controllers, how do you warn traffic using your services about these plastic hazards behaving in strange ways?
Right now the gliding folks are all bent out of shape because the Junior Nationals endangered a display by the Red Arrows over Silverstone, which had to be cancelled. This is being discussed at length on Private Flying forum, where a Dutch glider pilot contributed information about their local requirements.
I would be very interested to know your opinions.