Pilots with weakening vision - please install Powerflarm

I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.

Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

On 7/6/2013 1:48 PM, son_of_flubber wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.

Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.



Some of you might also want to consider eye surgery. If nothing else,
do it for the sake of your fellow aviators. A while back my vision
deteriorated to something slightly better than 20/40. (Still FAA legal!)
At that point, I typically couldn't see other planes in the pattern,
and reluctantly came to the conclusion that I wouldn't want to share the
air with somebody in my condition, so therefore I shouldn't be there.
So I got surgery, even though the doctors had called my condition
"marginal".

The difference after cataract surgery was literally night and day!

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 4:43:42 PM UTC-4, Vaughn wrote:

Some of you might also want to consider eye surgery. If nothing else,

do it for the sake of your fellow aviators. A while back my vision

deteriorated to something slightly better than 20/40. (Still FAA legal!)

The difference after cataract surgery was literally night and day!

Thank you. Thank you very much.

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:48:32 AM UTC-8, son_of_flubber wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years. Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

I'm old and I got me one of those flarm things. I just can't figure out the circles and pointy things. Perhaps you could teach us old guys how this new fangled stuff works. You seem really smart.

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 1:48:32 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.



Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

I got Flarm and had my eyes done, they both cost about the same.
Glen

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 6:48:32 PM UTC+1, son_of_flubber wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.



Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

What is Powerflarm abd how is it different to regular old flarm? What advantages does it give me?

At 12:35 09 July 2013, wrote:
On Saturday, July 6, 2013 6:48:32 PM UTC+1, son_of_flubber
wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.



Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You
can turn
the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

What is Powerflarm abd how is it different to regular old flarm?
What
advantages does it give me?


Depends on which country you are in. In USA, it's PF or nothing.

Chris N

Hi,

PowerFLARM includes:
- FLARM transmitter and receiver
- ADS-B receiver (to see ADS-B equipped aircraft)
- Mode C/S transponder receiver (To see all Mode C and Mode S transponder
equipped aircraft) (non-directional)

You can see details he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/flarm.htm

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
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On Saturday, July 6, 2013 6:48:32 PM UTC+1, son_of_flubber wrote:
I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.



Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can turn
the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

What is Powerflarm abd how is it different to regular old flarm? What
advantages does it give me?

On 9/07/2013 23:44, Paul Remde wrote:
Hi,

PowerFLARM includes:
- FLARM transmitter and receiver
- ADS-B receiver (to see ADS-B equipped aircraft)
- Mode C/S transponder receiver (To see all Mode C and Mode S
transponder equipped aircraft) (non-directional)

You can see details he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/flarm.htm

Not with my poor vision! You'll have to shout louder.
GC

On Saturday, July 6, 2013 6:48:32 PM UTC+1, son_of_flubber wrote:

I understand that you want to fly for a few more years.

Please install Powerflarm (so that I can see you coming). You can
turn the volume down. You don't have to learn how to use it.

I understand that you're more scared of dying than I am. I don't have
Flarm so keep a really good lookout.

In all age rugby, players over a certain age have patches on their
shorts so the 80-year-olds don't get tackled as hard. In the same
spirit, I've painted a small pirate-style eye patch below my cockpit to
give you fair warning. Watch out for it!

GC