On Jul 26, 5:27*pm, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:18:17 PM UTC-4, Evan Ludeman wrote:
Here's your opportunity to lead by example.
I can promise this much: *buy one and use it, and you won't run into
me!

I've been thinking about gifting a PowerFlarm to my favorite club glider, as a thank you for patiently training me. *Of course there's nothing lonelier than being the ONLY PowerFlarm at the airport (as perhaps you know).

My $0.02: The skies of VT and NH are incredibly empty. If I see one
other aircraft per hour while on XC in your neck o' the woods, it gets
to feel a little busier than usual. I've gotten a few mode C pcas
hits around LEB, one South of Sugarbush last Saturday (but only after
he climbed through about 5k msl, he wasn't being interrogated lower).
I am a flarm fanboy... for venues with dense glider traffic. Like the
contests I frequent. For club ops in Northern New England, the
collision hazard should already be essentially nil (and one flarm
won't help much). The exception would be MWSA wave camp. I think I'd
suggest renting portables from Rex Mayes for any club ships coming to
wave camp rather than buying one lonely flarm that's going to be
mostly transmitting to the wilderness. A fair number of private ships
in MWSA are now equipped thanks to the group buy that Juan organized.

-Evan Ludeman / T8