FLARM Technology for the US Gliding Community

There has been a lot of talk over the past several months about FLARM
and PowerFLARM coming to the US. Unfortunately, there has been not
enough information about these systems to support an informed
discussion.

John Cochrane and I both flew with Classic FLARM units in Hungary this
summer at the WGC and found FLARM to be fantastic. We decided that we
wanted to do something to move the discussion along so we embarked on
getting the best information we could and organizing it in one place
on the web. Quickly, we asked Dave Nadler for his help and he joined
in. Read more about our thoughts at www.GliderPilot.org/FlarmOurView.

Finally, we contacted Urs Rothacher, the developer of FLARM and
PowerFLARM, and Lee Kuhlke, the US PowerFLARM distributor to provide
key technical data and to review for accuracy the content of the
site. The three of us have worked for the past month to create what
we believe is an accurate and unbiased representation of the FLARM
technology and new PowerFLARM system designed for the US market.

The information we have compiled can be viewed at www.GliderPilot.org/FLARM.
We invite you to review the information there and join in a new
discussion. We believe the FLARM technology and PowerFLARM system
represent a tremendous capability for collision avoidance and that
with adoption in the US, especially in contest flying, will save
lives.

We invite your comments,
Bill Elliott (WE), John Cochrane (BB), and Dave Nadler (YO)