NEW EQUIPMENT IN G-EOLX

Since coming back from its annual service recently our Cessna 172 G-EOLX has been fitted with a portable TCAS. This is a new miniature warning device . TCAS stands for traffic collision avoidance system and ours is fitted to the top of the instrument panel and warns us of any other aircraft that are near, by beeping and displaying the height and distance of the other aircraft if it gets near, so we always know where they are. The airspace in Cornwall is sometimes very quiet compared to say the London area but it is still good to be able to know in advance where the other traffic might be.