On 29 Oct, 07:25, Marian Aldenhövel wrote:
Hi,

there is no "concentrating": you go about your

flying until it alerts you.

... at which point, if I interpret the pictures atwww.flarm.com
correctly, you have to look at the thing to get an idea of where it
thinks trouble is coming from, then work out of its real or not, then
work out what to do?

About the "work out what to do": Yes. You will definitely have to work
that out. Quickly. Without FLARM you would have to do it more quickly
when you notice the traffic (or just the conflict, if you had seen them
before) without electronic aid a few moments later. I prefer to have
more time.

As I said on my first post in this thread, my only contact with flarm
has been through an instructor I know who occasionally teaches at a
site which has fitted it to two-seaters. He reports that, while ridge
soaring, he gets a huge number of false alarms: alerts for gliders
which aren't there at all, or whose turns at the end of a ridge beat
are being misinterpreted. So his students end up spending time
checking up false alarms ... time which they could be using to look
out better for real things?

I can see that I need to see what it's like myself, so I'm going to
have a go in one one these two seaters as soon as I can manage it.

Ian