On Oct 29, 3:27*pm, T8 wrote:
On Oct 29, 1:02*pm, John Cochrane
wrote:

This is very interesting. We started with "is there really a tactical
advantage in seeing other gliders on flarm." Some US pilots are
adamantly opposed to allowing this to happen, and view it as a big
negative to the contest soaring experience. I seem to be hearing "yes,
and we like it."

John Cochrane

Contest soaring is a game... one that has changed an awful lot since I
started out in the map/camera/eyeball/high speed gate days. *I wasn't
real thrilled about the switch to GPS and I feel some of the same
feelings towards the ability of flarm to tell us about gliders beyond
visual range. *One of the things I like about this sport is that it's
difficult enough to be daunting. *It was still more so pre-GPS, and I
liked that even better.

Probably, I'll get worn down on Flarm the same way I got worn down on
GPS: it just won't be practical to police this.

But when our moving map displays start plotting thermal locations,
strengths and working bands before we even arrive... *we may be
racing... and the speeds will be impressive... but man, it's all a bit
of a con at that point. *My $0.02. *Bet Romeo agrees with me,
anyway :-).

Geeze. *I'm more of a curmudgeon than most of the "Seniors".

-Evan Ludeman / T8

Evan,
So You are one of the guys who finds thermal under the visible cloud
and pray to your god to make it disappear, so nobody can see it and if
somebody goes same track crashes and burns.
Ryszard