PowerFlarm v3.40

On Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:14:46 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:

Listen up, Guys: GA, military, and airlines are NOT using Flarm. Oh, and

we have at least one guy at Moriarty who has a Flarm but not a transponder.

So he and the half dozen or so Flarm equipped gliders can avoid each other

but he's cruising along blissfully unaware that ATC can't see him, nor can

the airliners or military flights that buzz in and out of ABQ daily.

Blissfully unaware? Well, since GA, military, and airliners are pretty much all using either Mode A/C, Mode S, or ADS-B, that PFlarm-only guy is probably fully aware of the location of any potentially threatening traffic in his vicinity - even that VFR doctor in the Bonanza squawking 1200 and not talking to anybody...

And he is also aware of where all his gliding buddies are - and that's a lot of fun, too! - even the clueless new guy who it trying to run into him under his nice Cu in the middle of nowhere.

So while I agree that if you routinely mix in with high-speed airline traffic (common out West, not as common in most of midwest or east) a transponder is a smart thing, I think that a PFlarm is even more of a good thing. Both is best.

Try it - you might like it. Seriously.

Cheers,

Kirk