PowerFlarm Update?

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 2:23:34 PM UTC-4, QRP Nimbus C wrote:
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 11:06:55 AM UTC-7, Mike the Strike wrote:
What do the Swiss regard as "early March"?

Mike

To me, this is the very definition of "Having you by the short hairs!" Unlike the flight navigation computer domain where there are multiple vendors competing with one another to stimulate a robust development and support environment, I'm quite surprised that there is no other entity to have taken up the torch for this worthy cause (especially here stateside) to encourage the same. For the most part, some healthy competition keeps all the players engaged, honest and focused. Maybe it's time for some healthy discussion about an alternative.

The obvious alternative is an ADS-B based system.

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 6:58:48 PM UTC-4, Mike Schumann wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 2:23:34 PM UTC-4, QRP Nimbus C wrote:
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 11:06:55 AM UTC-7, Mike the Strike wrote:
What do the Swiss regard as "early March"?

Mike

To me, this is the very definition of "Having you by the short hairs!" Unlike the flight navigation computer domain where there are multiple vendors competing with one another to stimulate a robust development and support environment, I'm quite surprised that there is no other entity to have taken up the torch for this worthy cause (especially here stateside) to encourage the same. For the most part, some healthy competition keeps all the players engaged, honest and focused. Maybe it's time for some healthy discussion about an alternative.

The obvious alternative is an ADS-B based system.

Sigh.......

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:58:48 PM UTC-5, Mike Schumann wrote:

The obvious alternative is an ADS-B based system.

No, Mike, it isn't. For all the reasons that have been explained to death before.

Kirk
66
Happy PF owner, who is not concerned with such a trivial task as updating software occasionally.

Thanks, Kirk.
As previously pointed out, ADS-B will not react well to things like a glider on tow or worse yet in a gaggle. It is designed more for IFR separations, and alarms will go off for what you'd consider a non-event in a glider.
With ADS-B, circuit breakers will be your friend. Do not install without a circuit breaker!
Wings won't fall off just because "April Fools Day" - an interesting coincidence - might come without a completely functional update.
How many countries are now selling RF frequencies that used to be open to the public? This is part of the problem.
I hope Herb found a good night's rest, with such a horror story unfolding.
Jim

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 6:05:52 PM UTC-7, kirk.stant wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:58:48 PM UTC-5, Mike Schumann wrote:

The obvious alternative is an ADS-B based system.

No, Mike, it isn't. For all the reasons that have been explained to death before.

Kirk
66
Happy PF owner, who is not concerned with such a trivial task as updating software occasionally.

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 8:17:53 PM UTC-7, JS wrote:
Thanks, Kirk.
As previously pointed out, ADS-B will not react well to things like a glider on tow or worse yet in a gaggle. It is designed more for IFR separations, and alarms will go off for what you'd consider a non-event in a glider..

ADS-B does not react to anything, it is fundamentally a protocol for transmitting aircraft identifying information (including the type of aircraft, of which 'glider' is one possible type), positions, and velocity vectors. Any 'alarms' that may be triggered are solely a function of the receiving equipment. FLARM has several advantages over ADS-B, not the least of which is the ability to enforce updates to its protocol every few years (rather than being stuck with update cycles measured in decades), which, strangely enough, is precisely what people were complaining about. But, there is nothing preventing implementation of more glider-appropriate ADS-B traffic warning capability, if someone was interested enough in doing so.

Marc

Its up now.
http://flarm.com/support/firmware-up...-version-6-00/

Thanks!
Installed.
Jim

On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 12:49:31 PM UTC-7, Dave Leonard wrote:
Its up now.
http://flarm.com/support/firmware-up...-version-6-00/