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June 30th 10, 05:35 PM
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Parowan midair?
On 6/30/2010 8:20 AM, Mike Schumann wrote:
In the US, there are no FLARM units. It's a chicken and egg situation. The 1st person to install a FLARM unit would see no benefit. As more people deploy these units, then the benefit would increase. In the US, for most glider pilots, the major threat to collisions is not other gliders, but other general aviation powered aircraft. What is the realistic chance of getting these pilots to buy / install FLARM? ZERO! If I correctly understand the forthcoming PowerFLARM, it identifies both other gliders that have FLARM, and any aircraft that have transponders. I would think that glider pilots will first buy it to identify transponders, and that is how we will achieve the critical mass of FLARM units in gliders. 
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