QRP Nimbus C wrote on 3/12/2015 5:13 PM:
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 11:06:55 AM UTC-7, Mike the Strike
wrote:
What do the Swiss regard as "early March"?

Mike

I would agree that collision avoidance or gliders represents a rather
small market. But my thoughts only begin with soaring. Real time
collision avoidance technology is applicable to many situations and
industries. While Flarm boasts of 30K aviation installations, when
you stop to consider other industries such as mining, construction,
public transportation, shipping and others (basically anywhere there
is an opportunity for traditional "see and avoid" tactics to fail
resulting in financial loss), then the aviation industry and gliding
in particular effectively becomes just a "tip of the iceberg" thing.

If you dig a little bit deeper, you will find the FLARM folk do supply
collision avoidance devices to mining companies and probably other
ground based vehicles, in addition to gliders and helicopters.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Feb/2010" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm
http://tinyurl.com/yb3xywl