On Sep 19, 7:09*am, " wrote:
Compared to a standalone PCAS, PowerFLARM has a few things going for
it:

- The other PowerFLARM equipped aircraft will transmit the fact that
it is transponder equipped in its FLARM signal.
* PowerFLARM will then attempt a ‘data fusion’ to reduce nuisance
alarms.
* The fusion, off course, works best with Mode S transponders…
* Once a match between a transponder and a FLARM signal has been made,
* the higly accurate FLARM data is used and nuisance alarms are
minimal.

- The PowerFLARM user interface is sophisticated, yet simple.
Suppressing the audio of the PCAS alert is trivial, so you will still
see on the screen that there are transponder A/C equipped aircraft
nearby but it will not constantly beep.

- PowerFLARM can easily be updated through the SD Card / Serial / USB
port. We have provided FREE updates to all devices ever shipped since
2004, vastly improving their performance and features.
* So even if we would not get it right at first; dont despair,
complain (to us, not RAS)...

- We are glider pilots and we will make this work for glider pilots as
otherwise we can never again show up on any gliderport, worldwide...

Urs
FLARM

Ability to switch off the noise is a good start. I hope the same will
be true for voice synthesizer (in respect to PCAS) when it becomes
available. If that is the case you got one more customer.