What is the best Traffic Avoidance system for light GA in Europe today ?

Interesting, thank you.

The most dangerous place is breaking out of the cloud from above and you have a VFR traffic travelling under the ceiling right in front of you…..

The most dangerous place is within 5nm of an airfield/ airport on a perfect clear day.

Not GA, but IFR and a VERY big sky.

“https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Namibia_mid-air_collision”

for curiosity’s sake, which model is your TCAS?

Avidyne TAS605

The most dangerous place is within 5nm of an airfield/ airport on a perfect clear day.

I would add:

• on a weekend day
• the preceeding weekdays having poor wx
• the following days having a forecast poor wx

Then things get really manic.

Maoraigh wrote:

Not GA, but IFR and a VERY big sky.

“https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Namibia_mid-air_collision”

To restate the rules:

• Civilian aircraft
• OCAS
• IMC

Namibia fails on two out of three counts.

Any more offerings? (Don’t be put off, I and I am sure many others, are really interested to find the answer.

To be fair, if there was an all-fatal one in IMC, one would probably not know for sure. Especially if a VFR flight plan was filed in which case accident investigators are likely to simply state the conditions were VMC especially if the METARs more or less support that. IMHO, investigators in certain countries where they just say “flying is dangerous, live with it” would declare VMC on the basis of the flight plan alone even if the reported wx was OVC006

But the ones which have happened in the UK seem to all have been very decisively and obviously in VMC. IIRC, none were simply enroute and all involved either circuit work or some complicating factors e.g. the RAF 2xGrob one (which was the only one at any “altitude”, being ~4000ft) was a loose formation where they lost track of each other.

That’s really interesting, and quite a sobering thought!

EuroFlyer wrote:

Does anyone know:
Since when is the PowerFlarm Core being sold with an optional 1090ES/ ADS-B receiver ? Was that always the case or has it been added as an option only recently ?

The PowerFlarm Core (and the Powerflarm Portable, for that matter) has, for the past 5 years at least, been offered as either Pure (only Flarm) and also as an ADS-B version. What is relatively new is that products such as Flarm Eagle is now being offered with optional ADS-B upgrades – in the past, any OEM PowerFlarm Module usually only concerned itself with Flarm reception…..

Ah, so it could be that we have one of these older devices. I can’t look at it right now because the file is still with the CAMO.