Another mid-air (UK)

On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 3:16:02 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Craig: I think I know the cause of "Flarm resistance syndrome". When a glider pilot says "It's not the money it's the principal of the thing" then you can be pretty sure that it's the money.

I now fly with both Flarm and Mode S. I look outside for traffic lots more than I did before. Of course that's just me.



Dale Bush

I think there is a natural resistance on the part of many folks to things they think are being over sold. The drift of this thread is an example. Every mid air is an excuse to bang the drum again.
Flarm was over sold and under delivered and many have not forgotten that.
As delivered, it had a useless unreadable display and a beep that told you to look inside at a hard to read display just when you needed to be looking outside.
For me it became a useful device when ClearNav introduced a simple display integrated with an audible message such as "traffic twelve o'clock high".
There is a perceptible trend on the part of some pilots to depend on this device and I think that is a hazard.
It also is heavily flawed in application because, except in a very few rare cases, installations don't have the second antenna needed to provide the coverage where it is really needed which is below and behind where we can't see.
So I think it is not just about the money.
UH