Experience with Flarm "Stealth" and Competition modes

On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:09:07 PM UTC-5, Steve Koerner wrote:
The holy grail of glider technology is the ability to read the strength of thermals at a distance. So far, accomplishing that has evaded all those who have tried. PowerFlarm offers the best hope for doing just that on a limited scale when there are other gliders in a cooperating network. If you want to view that as a leeching tool, so be it. Glider racing is inherently a cooperating process.



There are folks now that are advocating voice cooperation between racers. Certainly the subject PowerFlarm functionality is fairer and more benign than having guys off on a separate frequency discussing strategies.

Cooperating network and racing used in the same sentence? We're going down the road of bicycle racing team type strategy? My "go racing fund" just became my extra tows, go to Hawaii fund. Ya'll have fun out there racing/cooperating. WR