1 I am reminded of the story where a pilot complained that a glider was thermalling on his centre line at 10 miles..... the glider was over his home airfield, why should he not be there?
2 Look out. Glider pilots can see other gliders and even birds. If someone is not seeing gliders they need to train on look out more. pm me if you want a briefing on a good technique
3 Radios. Far from helping EASA will ban the fitting of 760 ch radios from Oct this year and cause those that are currently fitted to be removed in 5 years.
4 The Didcot area sees 40 to 60 gliders per hour on a good day. No radar or radio could deconflict that.
John R81, this thread comes up at least every 12 months and greater minds than ours have debated it. See and avoid is just that, learn to see and learn to avoid just like the rest of us have for 50 years. There are places that are quiet and other that are busy. In the quiet places there is no need to change and the busy places its too difficult to change. No one could cope if all gliders were on the radio communicating their full details to every ATC unit. The thing that would make the biggest safety improvement is to reduce the huge volume of controlled airspace below 6,000' that is seldom used.
If its just gliders your worried about fly at less than half the height of cloud base and you will find very few there, most prefer to be nearer cloud base.
happy flying
bb