Is FLARM helpful?

At 21:59 01 December 2015, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Another important consideration is the non-contest pilot. Perhaps
someone
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flying out of a nearby airport will be in some of the same airspace as
the
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contest pilots. These pilots flying with Flarm have purchased a Flarm
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the expectation of more situational awareness. Now they encounter a
mass
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of sailplanes flying with Farm limited by stealth mode. By mandating
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th you have essentially taken some of the situational awareness thus
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from a pilot that has not agreed to these conditions.

Simply not true