FLARM for SAR

You must be very stupid to bring down this discussion at this personal
level.
And quite ignorant also! IGC has long asked FLARM to release the
communication protocol in order to break the monopolistic role.
That was a conclamated, asked and subscribed decision in their meetings, I
think 2 or 3 years ago.
You cannot have monopolistic leaders in safety industry! Because it is a
treat, life or money, you have no choices.

So for me it is purely an ethical matter, and this SAR issue with these
pathetical excuses are just leading facts towards the simple truth: if you
want to know where your pal has crashed, you must ring up flarm in
switzerland, because the information was obfuscated long time ago.

What I have done for aviation safety is irrelevant, I am not in that market.
You might have asked me what I have done in atomic industry, it had been the
same.

But I can tell you easy what YOU can do for aviation safety: crash your
glider in the US , on saturday afternoon, lost in the mountains, and expect
that your friends get informations from flarm offices opening on monday
morning.
good luck then.


"GC" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2012 19:59, wrote:

How sad you don't answer any of my questions. All this new post does
is repeat how stupid the rest of the world must be compared to you,
that nobody else will ever be clever enough to analyse LFLA as good
as you do. That's not a good starting point for a serious
discussion.

No, Max. That's a complete distortion of what Flarm said. Like most
open source fanatics, your quasi-religious fervour makes you twist
comments to get the effect you want. What makes you think that a
discussion of aviation safety with you would be serious. What have YOU
and Paolo done for aviation safety compared to Flarm's track record?

Why don't you publish your analysis tool under a free license? That
not only allows authorities to respond faster to urgent situations
without having to wait for you to wake up, but will also allow others
to improve it, instead of starting from scratch. You do want to
improve response times and SAR quality, don't you?

I think Flarm want to make the best traffic awareness and avoidance
system they can and they have pursued that aim with great success and to
the benefit of soaring for some years. YOU are the one that keeps
bugging them about SAR as an excuse to push them into revealing their
proprietary designs and software. GO AWAY. It was much more
interesting when you and Paolo were trading insults over who owned what
parts of XCSoar and LK8000.

GC