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At 12:26 24 November 2015, Ramy wrote:
... (With handful of Flarm saves in over 1000 hours with Flarm) Interestingly, my experience is just the opposite: in 1593 hours in the French Alps since 2007 (only 208 hours of which were without Flarm), I have had no relevant alert from Flarm but hundreds of false alarms. However I have experienced several dangerous or very dangerous events (and many more daft ones) which can only reasonably be ascribed to Flarm - or rather the false expectations that some pilots seem to have of it. The most stupid of these was two gliders simultaneously overtaking me at speed from directly behind on a ridge, one each side, at exactly my height, and with a horizontal separation of about a wingspan. Fortunately, I had insisted that my pupil did *not* take evasive action from the Flarm-announced threat, pointing out that we might just turn into the path of the (imagined) single overtaker. (I presume that the 2 overtakers thought "they know we're coming, so they won't do anything stupid"!) In the 2000+ hours in the Alps before Flarm I saw no such dangerous behaviour; nor in the 208 hours 'gap' without Flarm in 2008. Of course, nothing can be proved. But enthusiasts for Flarm should be aware it has its down-sides. |
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