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by cynical_spar 612 days ago
You are down playing it way too much. It’s way better than nothing. You also don’t seem to understand how ADS-B works. There are two kinds ground to air and air to air, air to air latency is measured in milliseconds and in the case of converging airplanes the latency would be near zero since you are receiving the other airplanes broadcasts directly.

Having TCAS in small GA airplanes is never going to be possible. The cost is too high and the performance differences are too great. You don’t need an RA to make a decision, TAs are completely sufficient in GA and ADS-B works quite well for that.

Not sure why you would care about this while flying formation. TCAS isn’t helping you there either.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343689163_A_study_o...