On Sep 5, 6:52*am, bumper wrote:
For team flying, a number of US pilots have used Garmin RINO. Back
when they allowed position data to only be transmitted on the lower
power FRS band, air-to-air range was about 10 Nm. Then a few years
back, the FCC allowed use on the GMRS channels and airborne range
increased to 20 - 23 miles *if* the RINO is mounted so it's antenna is
above the canopy rail.

Yeah, it's one more gadget to add, but it's easy to use displays the
other glider/s bearing, distance, and altitude. It also allows a spot
(thermal) to be marked and that info transmitted to team members.
Polling may be individually enabled too, and that allows you to
request and receive position info from other "team" gliders without
their having to push their send button.

bumper
MKIV and QV
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Not only does the Team Code work very well in SYM it also generates
the same format as XCsoar, so this weekend another pilot and I were
able to locate each other by using the feature in those two programs.
FLARM is not required. As has been pointed out, this is not a tracking
device, the other pilot tells you the location code over the radio and
you type it in which results in a waypoint being added to your screen
with distance and bearing if that is how you have your softwar st up-
in SYM it becomes the Target and shares those atributes.

Brian