Power Flarm Display

On Mar 17, 6:03*pm, Evan Ludeman wrote:
*Sadly, my mode c/s pcas range on powerflarm still stinks, it's one or two miles *at best*. *Saw a bizjet rip by at less than 2 miles. *Not a peep :-(.


I'm glad to hear another report of this. It exactly matches my
experience. Head on traffic less than a mile away - in sight ,
alerted by ZAON PCAS, and Power FLARM portable indicated nothing!

I hope FLARM will eventually recognize this problem and correct it.
Until then I don't fly without my ZAON MRX.

Andy

On Monday, March 18, 2013 10:44:54 AM UTC-4, Andy wrote:
On Mar 17, 6:03*pm, Evan Ludeman wrote:

*Sadly, my mode c/s pcas range on powerflarm still stinks, it's one or two miles *at best*. *Saw a bizjet rip by at less than 2 miles. *Not a peep :-(.


I'm glad to hear another report of this. It exactly matches my

experience. Head on traffic less than a mile away - in sight ,

alerted by ZAON PCAS, and Power FLARM portable indicated nothing!

I hope FLARM will eventually recognize this problem and correct it.

Until then I don't fly without my ZAON MRX.

Andy

I seem to remember about a year ago Darryl Ramm wrote about the difficulties involved in doing what the Zaon MRX does so well. There are a lot of non-trivial problems to be solved, it's by no means straight forward.

I'll see if I can find his post; if I do I'll write again. Or perhaps Darryl will see this and re-post his excellent explanation.

-John, Q3

On 3/18/2013 7:44 AM, Andy wrote:
On Mar 17, 6:03 pm, Evan Ludeman wrote:
Sadly, my mode c/s pcas range on powerflarm still stinks, it's one
or two miles *at best*. Saw a bizjet rip by at less than 2 miles.
Not a peep :-(.


I'm glad to hear another report of this. It exactly matches my
experience. Head on traffic less than a mile away - in sight ,
alerted by ZAON PCAS, and Power FLARM portable indicated nothing!

I hope FLARM will eventually recognize this problem and correct it.
Until then I don't fly without my ZAON MRX.

Are you using the Core or Portable (if so, has it had the recent
hardware upgrade)?

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

Hi Andy,

Has your PowerFLARM Portable been upgraded as per the recent recall?

Thanks,

Paul Remde

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On Mar 17, 6:03 pm, Evan Ludeman wrote:
Sadly, my mode c/s pcas range on powerflarm still stinks, it's one or two
miles *at best*. Saw a bizjet rip by at less than 2 miles. Not a peep
:-(.


I'm glad to hear another report of this. It exactly matches my
experience. Head on traffic less than a mile away - in sight ,
alerted by ZAON PCAS, and Power FLARM portable indicated nothing!

I hope FLARM will eventually recognize this problem and correct it.
Until then I don't fly without my ZAON MRX.

Andy

On Monday, March 18, 2013 7:44:54 AM UTC-7, Andy wrote:
On Mar 17, 6:03*pm, Evan Ludeman wrote:

*Sadly, my mode c/s pcas range on powerflarm still stinks, it's one or two miles *at best*. *Saw a bizjet rip by at less than 2 miles. *Not a peep :-(.





I'm glad to hear another report of this. It exactly matches my

experience. Head on traffic less than a mile away - in sight ,

alerted by ZAON PCAS, and Power FLARM portable indicated nothing!



I hope FLARM will eventually recognize this problem and correct it.

Until then I don't fly without my ZAON MRX.



Andy


Andy,

When I did a side-by-side comparison with PowerFlarm PCAS function and a Proxalert R5 on the glare shield of my Husky, I found that the R5 was interfering with the PF. The R5 would show a PCAS target which would not show up on the PF until I turned off the R5.

I didn't test the PF with the ZAON, as by then I'd sold it in favor of the R5, mostly because that gives target squawk code. I wonder if the proximity between your ZAON and PowerFlarm is affecting your results?

bumper

Yes, the 2.7 beta works well for updating powerflarm display without the cable, for IGC and Flarm traffic.

Ramy

On Monday, March 18, 2013 1:56:32 AM UTC-4, Ramy wrote:
Yes, the 2.7 beta works well for updating powerflarm display without the cable, for IGC and Flarm traffic.



Ramy

If there's a public 2.7x beta, please provide a link.

T8

On Monday, March 18, 2013 7:32:16 AM UTC-7, Evan Ludeman wrote:
On Monday, March 18, 2013 1:56:32 AM UTC-4, Ramy wrote:

Yes, the 2.7 beta works well for updating powerflarm display without the cable, for IGC and Flarm traffic.







Ramy



If there's a public 2.7x beta, please provide a link.



T8

2.7 beta is not public as far as I know.
PCAS issues still exists unfortunately. They are working on it. Those who fly with both Zaon and PF can help by turning on the log feature and provide the log file and time when there is major discrepancy. This is what I am doing.
As far as the butterfly display for PCAS alert, the butterfly folks are also working on improving it. Frankly I think it is important to provide constructive feedback to the Flarm and Butterfly folks so they can continue improving their products. Not sure what is the best channel for this though - RAS, email or the Powerflarm forum at
http://flarm.invisionzone.com/index.php?showforum=6
After flying with Powerflarm for 9 month now I must say that the flarm functionality is impressive.

Ramy