Bonanza Man wrote:

rw2 wrote:
FWIW, https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/ is at least as large.

POA has less than half the members, not that that is a bad thing.

And more posts. So, depends which metric you look at. Interesting...

Yesterday I was happily motoring east at 5600' well outside of B, C, or D. The only SUA was a pair of large MOAs 10 nm north. My ADSB IN from Foreflight & Stratus picked up another aircraft at 12:00 with "0" altitude difference at 8 nm on the recipral of my course. Center (did I mention I had VFR FF?) didn't say a word. I waited to see where the lane would go in this game of chicken until we closed to 4 nm, then altered course 45 degrees to the right. I never did see the other aircraft, though it passed only a mile+ a bit behind me.

As far as the security debate goes, IMHO money spent on a monitored security system is a VERY good investment. I know more than one person who depended on the law abiding nature of a certain social strata who was cleaned out (literally). And asking neighbors to 'keep an eye out' only goes so far.

PapernScissors wrote:...Center (did I mention I had VFR FF?) didn't say a word....

I had a airplane fly UNDER MY WING, on a head-on course, while on VFR FF. It was so shocking that I had to fight not to hyperventilate. And that was a commercial flight...King Air full of skydivers.

When I composed myself I called Center and mentioned that the aircraft descending to the east had missed us by about 20 feet. "Roger" was all I got in return.

I guess we fell through the "workload permitting" crack that day.

Hammer wrote:

PapernScissors wrote:...Center (did I mention I had VFR FF?) didn't say a word....

I had a airplane fly UNDER MY WING, on a head-on course, while on VFR FF. It was so shocking that I had to fight not to hyperventilate. And that was a commercial flight...King Air full of skydivers.

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Funny thing. Right after I read your post I found ASRS Callback 478 in my email inbox. https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/callback/cb_478.html

I guess ADSB IN reveals that ATC controllers really are not Perfect... like us all, there be 'good days' an 'not so good' days...