So, Mark, are you trying to say that the last time you almost ran over
me you would have seen me had I had a PF installed? Why didn't your PF
provide you with an alert on my Mode S transponder? Oh, yeah, that
inconvenient co-altitude thing.

After some 30+ years as a systems engineer, I know how to develop
requirements for systems way more complex than PF and I also know how to
choose existing systems which deliver what they claim. Reading all of
the PF comments on here by the believers still leads me to different
conclusions. Please note also that I only state negative opinions when
someone makes a ridiculous statement first.

Should you want to discuss this further, I'll be towing today and
tomorrow. Drop by.

Dan Marotta

On 8/5/2014 8:45 PM, Mark628CA wrote:
I fly with Dan Marotta on a regular basis from Moriarty. He constantly denigrates Power Flarm to any and all, and refuses to consider it as anything but something to bitch about.

Many of us at Moriarty use Power Flarm and find it to be a welcome addition to the cockpit environment. I see an indication of possible PF traffic and immediately try to get a visual contact. I see a Transponder ring and altitude and immediately try to scan to find the object.

My eyes are out of the cockpit much more than previously, when I thought I was all by my lonesome in the Big Blue Sky. I am informed of relative traffic on many occasions when I would have been blissfully unaware of their presence.

Dan is entitled to his opinion, but he should be aware that he is in the minority, and his insistence on only a transponder makes US aware of HIM, but he is not taking advantage of a valuable tool that might make his flying safer for HIM (and US!)

And his assertion that he has "a whole brain" is a subject of regular debate amongst other Moriarty pilots. You might want to get a second opinion, Dan.

Just kidding :-)