On Aug 9, 5:03*pm, "noel.wade" wrote:
Thanks, John. *I was fortunate enough to do my primary single-engine
training in a nicely equipped set of Diamond DA-20 aircraft with glass
cockpits (though it was pretty damned expensive). *They were equipped
with TIS displays and it was really great to get a sense of the other
air traffic around my training area (downtown Seattle has 4 major
Class D airports within a few miles of each other, all under Class B
airspace and with big jets taking off and landing at them all, as well
as a lot of GA and seaplane traffic). *As long as people don't get
complacent, I firmly believe in the ability of a similar device to
increase situational awareness and safety!

Questions For The Competition Pilots out the

Would you pay $$ to rent a powerFLARM unit for a Regional or National-
level contest?
What would you pay for 7 - 14 days of use of a powerFLARM?
Would you pay a higher contest entry fee if the contest provided FLARM
units for competitors?

--Noel

Noel,

I've monitored Whidbey approach when flying up near Mt Vernon, I can't
tell you how many times I've heard the controller giving pilots heads
up for traffic and not one of the power guys ever saw each other. This
has happened many times.

I somewhat believe power pilots are complacent, believing that
technology will save them for a mid-air..................if you
recall, we almost got rammed by a twin while in the pattern at KAWO!

I don't like the idea of making FLARM available for rent. This is
something we should should equip our cockpits with and use ALL THE
TIME! I don't know what the learning curve is for Flarm, but if I ever
did fly a contest, I would want to know how Flarm works and not have
to "figure it out" in the cockpit during a contest.

Also, let's not stratify the use of Flarm for just contest pilots, the
airspace gets pretty busy just east KAWO too!

Is there a possibility of making Flarm simulator that we could
practice with on a PC? Perhaps some of the soaring flight simulators
have it, but I don't play with those.

On another note: If we are going to start tossing our ideas into the
hat...................please make sure LK8000 is compatible with
whatever Flarm unit is developed, pretty sure Paolo is all over that
anyways!

Brad