PowerFLARM leeching comments

On Sunday, October 21, 2012 9:52:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
If glider A is a collision threat, glider B is off to your side
and not a collision threat, will flarm show glider B in stealth mode?
No, I gather.
If you suddenly bank towards glider B to avoid glider A...

Correct.


And it doesn't always give 25 seconds warning, especially if
carbon fuselages are blocking signals.

And especially if pilots have not followed sensible practice
installing the antennas, or used antennas with no radiation
downwards. Speak to your fellow pilots when you see this,
it could be your life...


A stealth mode is far from obviously a good idea, if it only
shows imminent collision threats. The operation and reliability
of such a mode have to be really bulletproof.
gratuitous obnoxious comment snipped
... would seem to be something one would want a lot of real world
experience with. But how do we get real world experience and find
out its actual limitations?

One could possibly pay attention to foreign experience, where many
thousands of FLARM have been deployed for years, instead of
provincially continually reinventing the wheel...

Just a far-out idea, wishful thinking no doubt...