On 1-25-2011 12:51, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:35:36 -0800 (PST),
wrote:


If you mandate FLARM at Uvalde WGC what will you do about visiting
pilots that bring their own FLARM equipped gliders. With no FCC
certification they will not be legal for use in USA. IGC cannot, or
at least should not, mandate an illegal operation.

Then CANCEL the WGC at Uvalde.
Period.

If the organizers of a WGC forbid the use of THE major safety device,
they ought to be forbidden to hold ANY international contests.
Period.


Sorry if I sound angry - but I am.
Forbidding the use of FLARM at a WGC is about the dumbest thing that I
ever read on r.a.s.




Andreas

I have no idea what these devices even are (I'm a powered plane guy with
just some time in gliders). However, if I understand what you are
saying is these devices may not be "type accepted" by the FCC, in which
case they would be illegal in the USA. So, are you suggesting that laws
be broken just because they are perceived to be a safety device and to
just use them anyway? As a (licensed) user of FCC regulated airwaves in
my other hobby, I can not condone having illegal "transmitters" used
against present FCC regs. I ASSUME these things use transmitters or are
they strictly a receive only device?