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9/18/2020 7:16 PM
 

Don

 

Great suggestion! I'll give it a try and am going to move my tablet close to my line of sight.

Of course, I could consider a heads up display. Expensive, but could help with my midair obsession.

John M

 
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9/18/2020 8:30 PM
 

John, I've never been in a mid-air, but I've come closer to other aircraft than was comfortable, mainly because it was a surprise to both of us. Also, a friend's SeaRey was eaten up from behind by a faster airplane when both were carrying Young Eagles. My friend and his passenger survived, but the others died.

After that I decided to make my own SeaRey easier to see--added a wigwag flasher to the landing lights to augment the wingtip strobes.  The forum doesn't seem to like videos, but here's a frame of one, showing the wig but not the wag:

The next step is to make the airplane more visible from astern and I'm currently trying to get a firm ruling on whether a white strobe on the back of an airplane, pointing aft, is legal.  So far I haven't found any rule that prohibits it--nor any rule that promotes it, either. But knowing the FAA, there probably is one, however obscure it might be.

 
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9/20/2020 9:53 AM
 

Don:

Just realized that my Honda Civic does exactly what I have been requesting from IFLY on vocal traffic alerts.

If my phone is blutoothed to the car and I get a text message while driving, it reads the message to me. So not rocket surgery if Honda can do it.

John M

 
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12/15/2020 12:09 AM
 

2020 is almost over.  Any update on vocal traffic alerts?  

 
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12/15/2020 9:41 AM
 

Not nearly as easy as you'd think, we're working on it still. 

 
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