T8 wrote:
Here's another one that was raised by a friend of mine at the field
yesterday. What do accident statistics show in regions where Flarm
has been widely deployed?

I'm not aware of a midair where both gliders were equipped with a
(working) FLARM. But luckily, the number of midairs has always been too
low to allow for serious statistics.

That said, I've been flying a FLARM equipped glider in a FLARM
"congested" area for several years now. To me, FLARM was a big
eye-opener. I just wasn't aware how much conflicting traffic I didn't
see before. You know, if you don't see a glider, you will never know
that you didn't see it.

For me, statiswctics is not the whole story. There is a huge difference
between risks that I can handle responsibly and those that I'm just
exposed to without being able to do something about it.