From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: An Experience
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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:52:15 -0400
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> or colors are best for other people to see a Legacy?

  Kevin,
  
  Hah!
  
For a really small head-on profile, consider this - 2 Lancair 300 series
  airplanes in radio contact approaching a meeting place (over water tower 
xxx)
  
  from opposite directions at a closing rate of almost 400 Kts didn't see each
  
  other until a quarter mile apart (we were at slightly different altitudes 
and
  
  different sides of the tower for safety reasons).  Somewhat like a pass
  scene
  out of Top Gun.
  
  Or
  
  A flight of 2 Lancair 300 series aircraft depart an airport with one
  starting the takeoff roll as the other's wheel leave the ground (again about
a
  quarter mile separation) with a ninety degree turn planned for the join  up.
  Until
  the lead rolls into the turn, visual capture is  intermittant.
  
  Anyway, try Day-Glo Orange or Lime-Yellow, pulsating lights and make  sure 
to
  equip your aircraft with a traffic alerter to avoid the larger, slower
  bogeys.
  
  An auto traffic safety group found white to be the most visible  "color".
  Don't think that primer gray can be seen by anyone.   If you can see the 
trim
  on a bird in flight, you are too close.  Also,  it is easier to see an
aircraft
  above you than one down in the  ground clutter.
  
  Scott Krueger  AKA Grayhawk
  Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
  Aurora, IL  (KARR)
  
  Abnegate Exigencies!