Let's look at this sensibly. The WGC is a year and a half away. In
the next few months, we expect to have FCC approval for a US Flarm.
Pre-orders are such that these will be widely in service later in the
year and pretty universal for contests by 2012. European Flarms may
or may not be FCC approved by then, but there will be rental US units
available to enable all gliders to be equipped.

Right now, no-one can mandate an approved Flarm unit in the USA
because there aren't any! That will likely change in the near future.

None of us are suggesting that encouraging the devices is bad, and
they are certainly not going to be banned, but it's just too early to
say how we will accomplish equipping the competing gliders.

Mike