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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
I find it odd that there's no posts regarding the first-time use of
PowerFlarm in a US contest. Surely they're all flying with them. |
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
On 8/8/2011 8:01 AM, Dave Hoppe wrote:
I find it odd that there's no posts regarding the first-time use of PowerFlarm in a US contest. Surely they're all flying with them. David Leonard commented on his club's chat as a first time, first day user "if you want to fly in company, you really want one of these. The electronic eyes are quite useful." |
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
On 8/8/11 7:01 AM, Dave Hoppe wrote:
I find it odd that there's no posts regarding the first-time use of PowerFlarm in a US contest. Surely they're all flying with them. Frank Paynter mentioned PowerFLARM in his Uvalde Day 1 report at http://soaringcafe.com/2011/08/uvalde-day-1/ Here is what he said "And another big change here at Uvalde. For the very first time in history, U.S. pilots are flying in a U.S. contest with FLARM! The FLARM folks came through with a shipment of the ‘portable’ FLARM devices, and they were hand-delivered to Uvalde by Lee Kulke. Pilots who were on the FLARM order list for the ‘brick’ (remote display) unit were offered the chance to get a portable unit instead (the ‘brick’ unit hasn’t made it through FCC approval yet). So, about 40 of the 60 pilots here have FLARM units now; I had ordered a ‘brick’ unit, but took delivery of a portable unit for this contest. Today was my first day flying with one, and I have already fallen in love with it. I was running with the 15m crowd when I got an alert that another glider was close aboard on my left side. I looked out and saw that John Cochrane (BB) had pulled up next to me from behind. before FLARM, I might never have seen this until too late, but with FLARM it’s a piece of cake. The indications on the screen are very intuitive, and when it wants to let you know about a possible collision threat, you have no doubt about its intention. Also, it wasn’t anywhere near as obtrusive in gaggles as I thought it might be – it only alarms when its calculations determine there is a potential collision threat in the next few seconds. All in all I’m very happy to have my FLARM unit, and hope it won’t be long before they are in the hands of at least every competition pilot." Those contest reports are great reading - keep them up Frank! Darryl |
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
Great to hear! Thanks for posting that.
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
Great to hear! Thanks for posting that.
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
At 17:08 08 August 2011, Dave Hoppe wrote:
Great to hear! Thanks for posting that. I have no idea why my posts are duplicating. I'm only sending one. |
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PowerFlarm at Uvalde?
On 8/8/2011 10:33 AM, Dave Hoppe wrote:
At 17:08 08 August 2011, Dave Hoppe wrote: Great to hear! Thanks for posting that. I have no idea why my posts are duplicating. I'm only sending one. Pretend you are using Google, and no one will blame you! -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) |
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