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FLARM abuse in competitions
Urs,
as a non - competition pilot I don´t want to be in stealth mode for five minutes when power is cycled. I never ever want to be in stealth mode! From personal experience, if a group of pilots flying a competition approach me, I would like to know as early as possible to be able to stay clear of them. May I suggest to completely drop the "stealth mode" concept and only limit information available on the serial port, when a "competition" mode ist selected. You could record the status of the "competition" flag in the IGC file, and whoever deselects it during competition could be penalized. I understand one could cheat by installing a secret second FLARM unit in the glider, but for the majority of FLARM users there would be an advantage IMHO. Michael schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... To prevent abuse of the received data in competitions (which is an IGC requirement) FLARM has since 2004 included a "Privacy" mode where not all the received information is forwarded to the serial dataport and therefore is never available to external, graphical displays or PDA's. The *internal* threat calculations always use the full dataset. For the mandatory 2008 update, "Privacy" mode is further refined with the following goals: - Discourage temporary turning off of FLARM during competitions - Discourage use of "Privacy" mode outside competitions Modification for the mandatory, scheduled 2008 update: The guiding principle is that the pilot will not receive more information than what is visually available anyway. 1) Rename to "Stealth mode" as this better describes the purpose and operation. Heavily promote its non-usage and explain it to key users. 2) The status and any changes of the "Stealth mode" is recorded in the IGC file as an L-record (LFLA STEALTH [ON / OFF]) and is therefore protected by the G-record. Consequently a competition authority can easily enforce the use (or non use) if desired. 3) Changes to "Stealth mode" during flight are delayed by five minutes. 4) Full reciprocity: A pilot that enables "Stealth mode" will get the information as if all other aircraft had enabled "Stealth mode", independent of their actual setting. 5) If FLARM is power cycled during flight, other aircraft are treated as if in "Stealth mode" for the first five minutes, independent of their actual setting. 6) Targets with enabled "Stealth Mode" are only displayed in NEAREST and are available on the Dataport as a PFLAA message if they meet at least ONE of the following requirements: - Target is a threat - Target is within 100m horizontal / 50m vertical - Target is within 1000m horizontal / 200m vertical and within +-45° of own flight direction 7) If a PFLAA message is issued according to the rules above, all fields in Italic are empty: PFLAA,AlarmLevel,RelativeNorth,RelativeEast, RelativeVertical,IDType,ID,Track, TurnRate,GroundSpeed,ClimbRate,AcftType 8) RelativeVertical degraded with (distance / 50) white noise when other aircraft is not a threat. Please comment. THE FINAL V4.0 VERSION MAY BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY (based on your comments). CHECK RELEASE NOTES AND MANUAL! Urs - FLARM |
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