The cadence of transition remains ever present, clocks that bind will be left to rust. Tick tock, tick tock.....

The old days are in the past. This argument is similar to the GPS data loggers versus cameras. The cream always raises to the top. Why limit Flarm. No Flarm data is going to help you out climb, core faster, or fly more efficient than a better pilot.

On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 7:49:31 PM UTC-7, John Cochrane wrote:
So we should impose stealth mode now because somebody might some day write some killer software that might let people know where thermals are and this might turn out to be a bad thing? I've "written specs" for lots of stuff too, like thermal detectors. No reality yet.

I think we need to get back to a simple principle: Let's see if something is really a problem before we start passing rules against it.

Surely, you guys who want to impose stealth mode can come up with some real, serious, documented problem that real flarms today are causing, not just hypothetical problems of hypothetical future software?

By then we'll all have FAA mandated ADSB displays of all traffic, super cheap drone anti-collision technology showing us where the thermaling birds are, and so on.

John Cochrane