Would you rather make it easier or harder to be seen?
Hell, no. That just makes them drip.So do you check the sump drains?
So do you check the sump drains?
Sometimes you need to pee on the electric fence once in awhile to remember your alive. :lol:
Glenn
Yes I do. Do you stand up in the shower? Do you wear a chute while flying? Life is about accepting whatever amount of risk your comfortable with. Everyone's has a different level they accept. I also like old vehicles that have worn out parts and are difficult to drive because they wander around and the brake suck compared to modern vehicles. Makes me feel alive just like my first vehicle I owned, a worn out 53 Ford pickup when I was 16. Sometimes you need to pee on the electric fence once in awhile to remember your alive. :lol:
Glenn
Perhaps that is why the sump drain drips?Sometimes you need to pee on the electric fence once in awhile to remember your alive. :lol:
Glenn
Slightly off topic, but do any of the ADS-B systems have aural traffic alerts? If the two planes that collided near Ketchikan had aural alerting I suspect the accident wouldn’t have happened.
Yep, you are correct. I was just saying that the aircraft involved in the Ketchikan accident did not have aural warnings. I flew the same avionics package when I was flying floats in Juneau. They all use Chelton flight logic which was a very early glass/adsb system that was paid for by the state of Alaska as part of the Capstone projectAural alerting is not hard or expensive to add.
Don't forget that after 2020 and all of you are loaded up with a warm fuzzy feeling of security that there will still be a bunch of us out there that don't have a transponder or ADSB. And I fly thru Maine in two different quiet aircraft quite a bit. I look out the window at more then the scenery. ;-) ...
While we were on our way to a recent fly-in, I passed a friend of mine just a few miles before the destination.
When I made my initial radio call for the fly-in airport, he said "I don't see you-- where you at?" --
despite the fact that I was about a quarter mile away when I went by him.
He was busy watching for ADS-B targets, instead of looking out the window, and I don't (yet) have ADS-B out.
That's what kinda worries me-- we already have too many people flying along with their eyes down in the cockpit, instead of outside where they should be.
I've even been guilty of that myself, fiddling with the radio, or the GPS, or whatever.
IMHO that'll only get worse with ADS-B bogies to look for on the old iPad.
If you assume that a large percentage of GA traffic is not broadcasting, and you should, then this gets much more interesting.
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While we were on our way to a recent fly-in, I passed a friend of mine just a few miles before the destination.
When I made my initial radio call for the fly-in airport, he said "I don't see you-- where you at?" --
despite the fact that I was about a quarter mile away when I went by him.
He was busy watching for ADS-B targets, instead of looking out the window, and I don't (yet) have ADS-B out.
That's what kinda worries me-- we already have too many people flying along with their eyes down in the cockpit, instead of outside where they should be.
I've even been guilty of that myself, fiddling with the radio, or the GPS, or whatever.
IMHO that'll only get worse with ADS-B bogies to look for on the old iPad.