If You've Flown a FLARM Stealth Contest, Vote Here

I flew at Harris Hill and I am not a fan of Stealth Mode for all the reasons that Andy Blackburn and John Cochrane have posted, as well as for the reasons that Jerzy has posted.

At Harris Hill, I helped several other pilots configure their Flarm to Stealth mode, I know how it is done, yet my Flarm never produced an IGC file that showed Stealth was on. I downloaded dump files and they showed the Priv mode flag had been set, yet the IGC file showed it wasn't.

I wasted time trying to set Stealth mode and finally gave up after many futile attempts.

As has already been posted, another pilot elected to land during the HH contest when he noticed before the start that his Flarm had switched out of Stealth mode from the previous contest days. This resulted in a less than ideal start for him.

For all of these reasons, I am not a fan and I truly hope the RC does not mandate Stealth, or if they do, that all Contest organizers ask for a waiver to remove the Stealth restriction for their contests.