On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:20:29 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
Son,



It's not my mission or desire to discourage anyone from using Flarm. Nor do

I equate it with guns. I just get riled up at someone telling me what I

must do to share his sky.



I've stated over and over again that I performed my own analysis of cost,

benefit, useability and functionality for the type of flying that I do and

some folks continue to try to convince me that it's best if I get one.



Some day I might get one. Probably not. I encourage everyone who wants a

Flarm to buy, borrow, or rent one. If all of you will stop telling me that

I need one to fly in the same sky as you, I'll stop beating my drum.



I expect delivery of my Zaon MRX tomorrow or Friday. That should alert me

to any transponder equipped aircraft in my vicinity and my transponder

should alert Flarm guys to me.



"son_of_flubber" wrote in message

...

It's a near miracle that a group of "middle-age+" people have quickly

adopted an expensive new technology like PowerFlarm. The people in the

racing community that have helped ease this along deserve a lot of credit..

This is rare and true leadership in the community interest. Congratulation

and thank you.



On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:27:18 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:



...I only care about the bandying about of such terms as

compulsory and mandatory. Those of us who truly care about our freedoms

understand that if we give an inch, those who want to impose their wills

will take the proverbial mile. I won't give that inch. I'll make my own

decisions.



Dan, you are making it sound like some of the leaders in the racing

community wants to take away your guns. Fine, don't install PowerFlarm.

But PLEASE STOP mixing the rhetoric of "gun rights" with the PowerFlarm.

You are discouraging anyone who owns guns and anyone who listens to gun

rights rhetoric from acquiring PowerFlarm. That is how persuasion works.

There are a lot of people on the fence about PowerFlarm and you are

influencing them. You are leading the charge in the opposite direction.

PowerFlarm is not a handgun.



Here is why I would politely ask you to stop beating your drum. YOU MAY BE

WRONG ABOUT POWERFLARM. PowerFlarm may be the right decision for someone

else who is on the fence. Please consider switching your drum beat to

something like, "I considered adopting PowerFlarm and I decided that it is

not for me because of how and when I fly. BUT you should make that decision

for yourself. PowerFlarm may save YOUR life. Lots of people think it is a

wise investment and I may be wrong, but I've chosen to take my chances. In

general, I don't like bells and whistles, so it kinda makes sense that I

would reject PowerFlarm."



If you can't go that far, how about switching to something neutral like

"PowerFlarm is not for me." Surely you have something better to do than

lead the charge against PowerFlarm.

So after you made your own analysis of cost you ordered a device who has marginal usability (I have been flying with Zaon since the day it came out, I think it is almost 10 years) for 1/3 of the cost of a device which is in an order of magnitude better than the MRX and have significantly more functionality including alerting you for airliners? Sorry to say but this is silly. If I knew, I would have sold you my old MRX, but I just didnt thought that any glider pilot would want to buy one now that PF is available.

Ramy