Turn Off Traffic

I recently conducted a "flight of two"with a friend.  Both of us are ADS-B equipped.  Due to our proximity, I was constantly being presented with traffic alerts.

I know that, as an avionics technician, I could "disconnect" the traffic before flight by turning off the ARINC 429 input port in Maintenance Mode.  But my question is if there is a way for a regular pilot to turn off the traffic features (while in normal operating mode) for one flight?

David Bunin

Sounds like what is really appropriate is a means to ignore certain targets.  Like those you are flying in formation with...

Gring wrote: When I fly formation, I pull the circuit breaker of my traffic system. Simple and effective.

Edited by MysticCobra - 07 Mar 2016 at 7:18am

Fair enough; I didn't catch the distinction between the previous post's "flight of two" vs. your "formation".  I should not have used the word "wingman", either.

DavidBunin wrote: When I fly formation, I pull the circuit breaker of my traffic system. Simple and effective. Not so simple for me.  My airplane is not equipped with pullable breakers. pretty easy to put it in maintenance mode to turn it off. Even in the air. I thought Maintenance Mode was inhibited in the air.  I know I've had trouble getting bench-test units to behave "on ground" if the test equipment has it "flying". I like the idea of being able to mute alerts related to a specific target. I like that too.  I'll see if I can find the feature-request thread to add it. David Bunin