Last summer after silently monitoring the frequency, I got a visual on my hangarmate flying his 1961 (no rear window) 172 at altitude and several miles ahead. His sports the Monroy ATD-300. I initiated an intercept to come up on his six. As a longtime C-150 owner, believe me, it is quite novel to own an airplane that can easily catch up with the average spam can. In a cloudless sky with the sun at my back and caught up in the romance of it all, my thoughts went to the ageless wisdom of "Boelke's Dicta". Anyway, as I stealthly slipped up to his tail and closed to within a few hundred feet, my finger steadied just above the gun trigger waiting...waiting.....(okay, so its really just a PTT) without so much as rocking a wingtip he calmly announced "I know that's you Rick, I've been watching you for miles." From that moment on, I knew my under-construction RV-8 will be so equipped.cjensen said:i just picked up a monroy atd-200 traffic detector, and wondered if there are any users out there that would like to comment on it. ................
It is not the average spam can. It is the first airplane I have owed alone And yes I have countermeasures. And he wasn't that much on my six. Once I saw his mileage counting down I changed course about 5 degrees and spotted him outside of gun range. I think the Monroy ATD-300 is worth the cost. On many flights it alerts me to re-focus my attention to a different piece of sky. And as Rick said. My aircraft has no rear window, and combined with a high wing, faster traffic over taking from behind is now "seen". With you guys that would be slower traffic from below.Rick6a said:Last summer after silently monitoring the frequency, I got a visual on my hangarmate flying his 1961 (no rear window) 172 at altitude and several miles ahead. His sports the Monroy ATD-300. I initiated an intercept to come up on his six. As a longtime C-150 owner, believe me, it is quite novel to own an airplane that can easily catch up with the average spam can. In a cloudless sky with the sun at my back and caught up in the romance of it all, my thoughts went to the ageless wisdom of "Boelke's Dicta". Anyway, as I stealthly slipped up to his tail and closed to within a few hundred feet, my finger steadied just above the gun trigger waiting...waiting.....(okay, so its really just a PTT) without so much as rocking a wingtip he calmly announced "I know that's you Rick, I've been watching you for miles." From that moment on, I knew my under-construction RV-8 will be so equipped.
Rick Galati RV-6A "Darla" 109 hours