Traffic Voice Alerts and Pilot Aware

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Traffic Voice Alerts and Pilot Aware

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Peer	Peer posted 2/12/2019 11:50:43 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 58, Visits: 392	+x Tim Dawson - 2/12/2019 10:34:44 AM The most we can say about a bearingless target is "there's something somewhere, probably within ten miles, at an altitude close to yours". We do not judge that to be useful; quite the opposite. The great strength of our vertical traffic information is how little it talks to you, because it's clever enough to know what is worth talking about. If we announced every bearingless target it would be talking a great deal. I'd like to here i.e. " attantion - beraringless target" if there is one close to me. Just to "wake me up" and have a look onto the screen and have a look outside.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 2/12/2019 10:34:44 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K	The most we can say about a bearingless target is "there's something somewhere, probably within ten miles, at an altitude close to yours". We do not judge that to be useful; quite the opposite. The great strength of our vertical traffic information is how little it talks to you, because it's clever enough to know what is worth talking about. If we announced every bearingless target it would be talking a great deal.
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PaulSS	P PaulSS posted 2/11/2019 10:42:21 PM Post Details Share Post
P Group: Forum Members Posts: 89, Visits: 3.2K	+x Tim Dawson - 2/11/2019 11:15:25 AM Bearingless targets do not participate in SkyDemon's verbal traffic information. Why is that, Tim? Is it something to do with the whole GDL90 thing and/or UAT weather integration? Obviously bearingless targets is a great facility (especially if PAW continue to develop innovative capabilities such as their MLAT) and it does seem a shame that verbal audio can't be used (if it's technically possible). I think it's going to be a LONG time before we see every aircraft carrying ADS-B and until that time the likes of bearingless targets help traffic awareness. If not the actual bearingless target information, will there still be a "traffic" warning to give the heads-up that something has appeared on the screen?
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 2/11/2019 11:15:25 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K	Bearingless targets do not participate in SkyDemon's verbal traffic information.
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c182driver	c c182driver posted 2/10/2019 3:40:46 PM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
c Group: Forum Members Posts: 9, Visits: 3	I'm looking forward to the new traffic voice alerts on the next release. As a Pilot Aware user, this will presumably mean disabling PAW's own voice alerts in favour of what appears to be SD's 'smarter' version. However, does anyone know what will happen with audio alerts of bearingless traffic? Will SD have them too? PAW's version is quite effective, giving three increasingly 'threatening' categories of alert and - crucially, given that there is no horizontal distance and direction information - calling out vertical distance/separation if less than 1000 feet, above or below. So when you hear that another a/c is 200 feet above, that can be a useful prompt to descend, even if you're not sure exactly where that other aircraft is. On the new SD voice alerts, what - if anything - will you hear if bearingless gets close?
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