Tow Tracker

On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:49:23 AM UTC-8, Giaco wrote:
I believe it could work with multiple tow planes, you would have a single cell phone connected to Bluetooth receivers in each plane.

While flarm is an option, the majority of club aircraft I have flown in do not have flarm, and with a focus on the ability to track a pilot, glider, and tow height, this makes using flarm too cost-prohibitive, and non-specific to the pilot.

The other goal is to take recording burden off of the tow pilots. Which is why you would ideally have the tow purely be involved in the process for recording the tow height.

There are certainly a lot of interesting flarm options out there though, thanks for the responses. Dittolog seems like a great product for the flarm line, but will also cost the club $30 per pilot per year, which seems a bit steep to me as well.

Chris

Maybe it's about time those club aircraft were fitted with FLARM, and this additional benefit help justify/fund that. Maybe that is better than focusing effort onto non-FLARM things. Nothing is free, hardware, the cost of people time and hassle for implementing anything, including testing out new unproven software and workflows, losing track of charges etc. is pretty real.