On Sep 2, 7:38*am, Andy wrote:
On Sep 1, 5:51*pm, Andreas Maurer wrote:

US lawyers and US product liability.

Yes, that was understood to be one of the reasons FLARM was not
available in USA in the past. * I have to wonder if making US Power
FLARM somehow different from PowerFLARM sold to the rest of the world,
and having a separate a US website, is perhaps an attempt to legally
separate the two PowerFLARM variants.

I don't see how that would work though if the manufacturing company
was the same and the alerting algorithms are common to all FLARM
products.

You know there are often simple answers to simple questions without
getting into all these complex worries. The web content for the USA is
simply being coordinated by the USA distributor and others who want to
see appropriate USA technical content available. See other comments
below why this is needed.

I've been subscribed to the PowerFLARM newsletter since Feb 2010 and
have not seen any information there, or on the PowerFLARM website,
that suggests a different product will be sold in USA.

Yes it would be great to have more information on newsletters etc. I
don't know why that is not happening, besides the team just being
buried with work. I think most people are trusting that guys who have
delivered Flarm in the past with huge success know what they are
doing.

I've tried point out before, but will do so again, is that the reason
there needs to be a USA web site is the market is different and there
are some product differences. The market differs in ADS-B adoption/
mandates here and how ADS-B will work. Key USA issues/features like
ADS-R and TIS-B make no sense to have on a European web site but very
important to talk about on a USA web site. And because of differences
in ADS-B (and even transponders) what is said for one market can be
confusing or just plain wrong in another. The product difference I
have worried about are as simple as ButterFly is offering different
levels of flight recorder as standard in different markets, that has
already caused confusion here. That's why the flight recorder was not
mentioned on the European site and is mentioned on the Craggy Aero
site (-- I know Richard is actively working to make sure all the info
on his site is up to data and correct for the USA market) and also
needs to be on a USA product web site.

Darryl