I hear the vario.....

but no FLARM. Am I missing something here?

http://youtu.be/dRFuWRpBa84

On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 2:02:34 PM UTC-5, wrote:
but no FLARM. Am I missing something here?

http://youtu.be/dRFuWRpBa84

No collision threat, no warning.

T8

Understand, just hard to believe in that gaggle.

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:45:01 -0800, victoriallake08 wrote:

Understand, just hard to believe in that gaggle.

I've seen more - during my first comp we launched 30 gliders in fairly
dire conditions and it turned out that the only lift was directly over
out field, so there were 30 of us just holding height in it until well
after the gate opened. Meanwhile the second task's 30 gliders were
sitting on the field looking up and muttering about plastic showers until
their task got scrubbed. I'm happy to report no plastic showers, though
lots of landouts.

However that video reminds me more of another time, some years later and
again during a Regionals which I wasn't competing in, when I was about
15km from home on a still, heavily overcast day and sitting in a weak
thermal at 2000 ft in my Libelle. 20-30 minutes later when I'd gotten to
3500 and was the first to clear off it was quite obvious that it was the
only thermal in the area because I'd collected 13 other gliders under me:
looking down on them was very similar to that video except that it was
much darker where I was and no sun on the ground anywhere.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

Here is a stabilized version of the same video. A lot easier to look at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-V2rlDSWU

At 19:08 25 January 2015, Tango Eight wrote:
On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 2:02:34 PM UTC-5,
wrote:
but no FLARM. Am I missing something here?

http://youtu.be/dRFuWRpBa84

No collision threat, no warning.

T8

Apparently you also get no FLARM warning if there is no FLARM installed.
You may not be missing anything at all but the glider from which the film
was shot may indeed be missing something, like a FLARM

On Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:02:34 UTC, wrote:
but no FLARM. Am I missing something here?

http://youtu.be/dRFuWRpBa84

It is probably the same glider as this video (? Duo XT):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eUnevV_xhw

In which case you can see that there is a small Flarm display on the top of the dash.

Am 25.01.2015 um 20:02 schrieb :
but no FLARM. Am I missing something here?

http://youtu.be/dRFuWRpBa84


FLARM algorithm is intelligent enough not to warn when other targets are
near but are no threat (like in the same gaggle, but lower/higher or at
same height but at constant distance/angle). Also you can disable
audible warnings for a certain amount of time (5min IIRC) with a simple
push of a button. I do it sometimes when in a gaggle with many competitors.

--
Peter Scholz
ASW24 JE

Thanks Peter