On Jul 5, 12:07*am, Ramy wrote:
On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 8:42:39 PM UTC-7, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 12:16:38 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
Having a glare-shield mounted antenna is like sitting behind a support column at a basketball game.

Complete Nonsense. The antenna and any decent
mount are thin, and you won't notice them after
5 minutes. The angle blocked is only slightly
more than your yaw string.

Are you going to remove your yaw string too ?

Really now.

No doubt PowerFlarm USA can come up with more aesthetic antenna and solutions.
I will have to compromise meanwhile, but am expecting a better solution will followup shortly once they start shipping and have more time.
The pictures I saw so far hurt my eyes...

Ramy (who is eagerly waiting for his brick unit)

I guess I am not sure what you are seeing that is so ugly?


Here is what I see from my cockpit:

https://plus.google.com/photos/10893...22263754238914

I only see about one inch of the PowerFLARM antenna over my compass.

I have flown two nationals with the Brick now. I see aircraft up to
11 miles and could not imagine flying a contest without it. I had a
head on at my altitude alert with a closing speed of over 250 mph at
Parowan with W3. I would have never seen the other glider with the
light angle and speeds we were flying.

The common statement among pilots with PowerFLARM was "I can't believe
anyone would fly without PowerFLARM".

Tim (TT)