PowerFLARM leeching comments

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:53:56 +0200, pcool wrote:

Where have you seen a 10 o clock alert in flarm?
Which display have you seen, from Flarm, showing a 10 o clock field?

I think Folken is referring to what the original small 'ring of LEDs'
FLARM display shows you. Its angular resolution is pretty coarse and the
vertical resolution ('above you' or 'below you) is even coarser. As a
result, I tend to scan a fairly wide sky segment (maybe 45 degrees wide
and high) to pick up the bandit. This is probably a wide enough scan to
allow for the difference between heading and track under most thermal
conditions.

I haven't (yet) used FLARM for ridge or wave soaring, which is when the
difference between heading and track could be much larger.


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