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Old March 24th 15, 08:23 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
WaltWX[_2_]
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Default PowerFlarm Range Analysis for "WX" - 15M Nats Yreka 2014

On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 12:32:03 AM UTC-7, waremark wrote:
Your performance is way better than my Euro Flarm fitted inside the LX 9000.

My problem with the range analysis tool is that it only tells you where you did pick up gliders. It does not tell you about the Flarm equipped gliders which you did not pick up. Did you never get contacts (or gliders) 'suddenly' appear closer than say 2k?

Mark Burton


Well, over my last two seasons of flying nobody seemed to "sneak" up on me with the flarm signal. However, it is obvious when following others that when you get behind and slightly below them in a glider with a carbon fuselage, that the signal drops out pretty quickly... say in less than one mile. One possible solution would be to put a second antenna (receive only is all that's available) on the bottom. That way, someone else couldn't sneak up on me. Does anyone else out there have experience with a second flarm antenna?

Walt Rogers