Thread: How did you install your FLARM brick and/or ADS-B Out?
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Old November 29th 19, 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric Greenwell[_4_] View Post
wrote on 11/27/2019 6:08 PM:
On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 9:15:31 AM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
On 11/26/2019 2:23 PM, wrote:
My comment was based on my frustration in that I can buy a Scout adsb-in receiver for $200, but have no sunlight-readable display to use with it. My iphone is not bright enough.
You could try a hood initially made of light cardboard to shade your
phone.* I use an iPad in my C-180 and it works just fine given the shade
from the high wing.* It's practically useless in direct sunlight.
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Dan, 5J

Thanks Dan, but an phone is just not bright enough in my bright glider cockpit. The traffic displays sold for Flarm would do fine, but they only accept flarm data, which means I'd have to buy a flarm system. I suspect this to be a marketing decision to drive flarm sales. Because I think this, I will definitely not buy any flarm product.

I use an iPhone 6 Plus in my glider to run iGlide. Brightness is adequate to good,
ditto when using Foreflight or similar (I can switch between the applications
while flying). You can buy an iPhone newer iPhone 6, some of which are even
brighter, especially the newest ones.

Instead of being angry with Flarm for displays that work only with Flarm, be angry
at the Scout provider for making it Foreflight/OS only, and not compatible with
some other display.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
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I use an I phone 6s and 90% of the time the screen is bright enough I found tilting the mount a little helps . I use a Crew Dog electronics Statux with Fore flight . I get voice audio collision avoidance warnings along with terrain warnings while on the ridge and sometime will alert "Short Final" while in the pattern . I must admit the audio warnings can be confusing while thermaling as it gives an O'clock audio that may be a second or two delayed. It would be nice to have a screen.

I do have a question if it will pick up Power Flarm /Flarm equipped aircraft? I do want to add a Flarm system in the future . Does Power Flarm/Flarm need to be integrated with the Stratux system ? Would I get collision warnings from my own Flarm system?