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British Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: captchaos on July 26, 2016, 06:02:50 pm

Title: Flight today - PAW and TCAS
Post by: captchaos on July 26, 2016, 06:02:50 pm

We did a flight from Farnborough way to west side of Stansted and back today. I was using the newly upgraded PAW with Pi2 and latest software and the aircraft had it's own TCAS (Bendix King I think).  PAW did give a good warning of a same level head on traffic before TCAS gave a TA. However there was lots of traffic TCAS advised of which PAW was unaware of. I assume this must have been Mode C and despite it being a good day for viz, it was hard to spot the lower level traffic.  As usual, lots of ADSB CAT traffic was visible.

I guess PAW was useful but nowhere near as useful as it would be if it gave mode C alerts. Any timesacles when this faeture will be available?

Title: Re: Flight today - PAW and TCAS
Post by: Ian Melville on July 26, 2016, 06:40:03 pm

What sort of alert does TCAS give you for Mode C?

Title: Re: Flight today - PAW and TCAS
Post by: Admin on July 26, 2016, 09:38:54 pm

Hi Captchaos

I will email you regarding early access to the ModeC functionality

Thx
Lee