As long as they are using appropriately maintained Mode-C Transponders in
It wasn't so long ago people on this forum were advocating NON TSO'd ADSB.
so keep your eyes open fully
As opposed to "half open fully" (in Class G VFR airspace)?
Perhaps instead of another gloom and doom thread, we can reasonably estimate there will be no 95:10 aircraft at those nose bleeding altitudes. The aircraft most likely to be seen are those with a reasonably high performance but perhaps with a low wing loading that makes flying above the convection layer attractive. Something rather about the optical size of a C150, has a wireless of some kind, and flown by someone without suicidal tendencies.
As that pilot will be, by law, flying VFR, persons flying IFR in that VFR really should look out the window every now and then to preserve the notion of practicing good airmanship.
As those people would reasonably expect NO VFR aircraft to be flying in cloud, it's not much to ask really. Or is it?
Anyone who has a cross country endorsement has a knowledge of hemispherical levels. Anyone with a RAA certificate has undergone a Human Factors exam. Anyone who has a transponder will have it turned on as is the law. Anyone who has a radio will, as is also the law, be licensed and competent to use it. And anyone capable of reading his now common gadget (a GPS), will have some degree of knowing where he is.
The alternate to all this is that everyone with a RAA certificate is a moron and only GA PPL's have a valid reason to be flying in that airspace. Oh, and the RPT God's and Princesses.
As for flying over water, well if the above paragraph rings true to you, there is a good chance they will drown themselves thus ridding you of the worry of bumping into them.
