On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 9:29:39 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 9:45:14 PM UTC-4, Charlie Quebec wrote:
i love the sight of whining in the morning, it sounds like victory.
LMAO

My read is that he does not agree with where the sport is going and is speaking up.
He is far from the only pilot that does not think that the evolution of the sport to providing continually increased amounts of outside information is a good thing.
As a leader, if he doesn't speak out, who will?
There are known ways to deal with some of these issues:
Examples:
FLARM competition mode to reduce the tactical benefit of FLARM radar.
Delayed availability of tracking information.
Others
UH

Well, just to keep everyone straight...

Stealth mode reduces the tactical benefits of flarm radar.

Competition mode reduces alarm sensitivity in gaggles to a level that is useful for competition.

Sebastian, or the software translation to English, confused the two as well..

I don't think whining from the podium is apt to be productive. All it did for John McEnroe is to cause people like me (not a big tennis fan) to think of him as that "very talented... incredibly whiny little snot". Did he do anything to improve the sport?

There's an IGC rules process. It moves slowly, with great pain, but probably faster than the equivalent in tennis. Sebastian, just by virtue of celebrity, has better access to this process than most. I generally agree with him, I wish him well with articulating his views in a way that results in positive change.

Side comment on flarm for all the noisy "stealth mode" detractors... it's just software. Flarm's stealth mode could be improved quite a lot. All one need do to make the "radar" display about safety and not leeching is strip all the ID (including radio ID) and limit range /delta altitude to 1km / 150m for gliders flying in same direction and say 3km / 300m for gliders on opposing or intersecting courses cruising at speed. The collision alarm functions remain completely independent, as now.

Evan Ludeman