[rsrguy]

Guys and gals that fly... I'm curious what's your take on adsb?

I work out of a hangar on a municipal airport with a 9000' runway surrounded by a lot of open space. It's uncontrolled. We get flight school traffic from 4 other cities, their airports being in more congested areas, and recently we have a college flight school that added a new facility to our ramp...

It's a $h!t show.... every day.

The us population of ga pilots is still not what it was in the 70's and 80's. I grew up spotting other air traffic out of dad's ac. I don't remember hearing much about midair collisions growing up... or off airport crashes for that matter.
I frequently use flight following and even call towers to report my pos when I'm not required to as a matter of courtesy.
All of this to say I've never felt more in danger flying than I do now with adsb.
I have adsb "in" only in my current ride. I always report my pos..... but lately it doesn't seem to matter.
I'm not hearing "looking " "say pos again" or other radio traffic like "no factor " as much as it did in the past.
Yesterday, a student was flying over the top of the pattern with only about 150' buffer and about an eighth of a mile space... he didn't see me on the down wind, and he wasn't talking. Last week we had a kid joining into the dw at the 45 300' low.... we had to side step him, he wasn't looking either or listening.
Has ADSB attenuated SA? Or is what I'm seeing a result of children teaching children? This was not behavior I recall seeing 6 years ago.
I have a gdl 82 "out" setup going into my airframe this month, but jeez adsb doesn't seem to be helping the overall sa of today's new pilots.... pilots not aviators.