The Canadian dealer asked me to post the price list on the Soaring Association of Canada FORUM classified pages in March 2014, with the list date Feb 1 2014 (I had attachment posting privileges, he didn't)... Additional charges for 2nd FLARM radio, audio output (new style CORE), IGC, ENL, and Garmin TIS output. This also had the CORE Pure (FLARM only, not transponder/ADS-B) announcement, and a price increase in the Portable (though 2nd FLARM radio and audio-out were included).

I see Paul Remde posted about this here on Jan 25: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.aviation.soaring/powerflarm$20pure/rec.aviation.soaring/KepsmmJns0U/VV7n_Mr1MJMJ There is a link to his webpage, where the actual costs of the licences is... (I did a ras search on "PowerFLARM Pure" and this popped up).

I was in the middle of a group buy for my club when all this happened, and it increased the complexity (some new model COREs, some old, different features and prices).

I am surprised that no one has submitted the new, non-IGC flarms to be position recorders, good up to Gold badges, to save the $US 92 licence fee...

I am happy with the range of my original PowerFLARM CORE using only the FLARM A antenna (I get an average of about 4 km according to the FLARM RF Range analysis page at http://www.flarm.com/support/analyze/index_en.html ), but my SZD-55 is not carbon...

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