PowerFLARM at Uvalde

Darryl Ramm wrote:
There was a lot there not to agree with, what in particular don't you
agree with?

He tried to close the dialog more diplomatically than I would, yet you
insist on repeating yourself.

That you attitude is selfish? (a likely short delay to you of a device
not fully feature equipped for the usage scenario you are most worried
about for important benefit to contest pilots and the wider contest
community?).

Fascinating. You appear to be blind to the selfishness of those contestants
who had ample time to pre-order the same units ahead of poster RWW, but did
not. Is there some reason you are unable to see the selfishness in _their_
actions?

That we don't need another mid-air/fatality at a contest?

Why are their necks more precious than his? Participating in a contest is a
voluntary decision and contestants are expected to prepare accordingly and
expect the associated risks. It is clear from the product diversion that
many did _not_ prepare by ordering promptly, so those who took the biggest
risk in pre-ordering earliest (but are not entered in this contest) are now
being penalized to favor those who couldn't be bothered. That's a
favoritism that is neither fair nor moral nor wise.

That FLARM should not have prioritized units for Uvalde? (OK we know
you disagree on that)

Those who choose to engage in riskier activities but not make prompt
advance preparation to mitigate that risk should not be rewarded at the
expense of those who enage in less risky activities yet still make such
prompt advance preparations.

Your position is actually immoral, not that of the other poster.

That getting Uvalde organizers and others early experience with
PowerFLARM is important for the world contest?

You'd better stop posting; as a neutral observer the above comes across as
unfettered arrogance.

That getting USA contest pilots exposure is important before next year
for input for rule changes?

Sigh. More arrogance. Maybe you should just tell any glider pilot who is
not entering contests to go to hell cause they're ruining the sport for all
the high-risk takers?

There is something wrong with how I describe current PowerFLARM
firmware features? Especially lack of PCAS and 1090ES audible alarms
(coming in a future firmware update)?

At this point he probably rightly concludes that as a non-contestant any
such upgrade is going first to you-know-who so why bother?

You disagree on current USA airliner 1090ES data-out carriage? - or do
you know if the airline traffic you are worried about have significant
1090ES data-out carriage?(its great to know if they do - can you share
which airlines/aircraft and their equipage levels?)
You think PCAS' short range and lack of direction information does not
makes it of limited use for airliner/fast traffic collision avoidance?
You disagree that transponders are important tools for airline
collision avoidance?
You disagree that transponders are the only technology that works/
interoperates with airline TCAS systems?
You disagree that if airliners are a serious/dominant concern you
should prioritize getting a transponder? (if I had airliners very
frequently fly over my glider port at 3-5k I would have installed a
transponder a long tine ago--have you?),

I didn't see anything in his response implying anything that deserved such
a rant built up of rhetorical questions. Suppose he had said he was worried
about other gliders in his area - wouldn't your attempts to belittle him
using technicalities all come to all halt?