PowerFLARM Mode S question

Dear Mike,
if you are really interested in why there is a reaction to your posts,
you might want to read back through them. They do border on the
offensive at times, And perhaps it is you who are doing the jumping:
your comment "what we have is a bunch of people who's view is that the
PowerFLARM savior has come and that their 50% solution is good enough"
is a pretty good leap. What we have is a bunch of people who think
that IF powerflarm is available by next season and IF enough people
get them, we stand a very good chance of one or two or three fewer
dead glider pilots.

Anyway, I personally think there was value in the discussion, even if
it went on a little long. It is an important topic and your comments
certainly pointed out all the possible downsides of PowerFlarm vs ADS-
B. In my mind immediate large scale adoption of Powerflarm (assuming
the product becomes available) followed by the development a practical
ADS-B option in the future is a best-case scenario. I think where you
are ending up at odds with pretty much everyone is the idea that
powerflarm will push ADS-B aside. Perhaps Powerflarm will just be a
step to ADS-B. In any case, the real issue is glider pilots dying. In
Europe Flarm seems to be helping glider pilots live, and that is the
fact that has gotten our attention.

see you up there, fly safe,

Brian




Glad this is the "simple" and "available now" solution we all
apparently need. BTW I have a bridge for sale if anybody is
interested.

Darryl

There you go again jumping to conclusions. *Whoever said that the
Navworx transceiver was designed for portable installations? *Their web
site doesn't say that, nor did I ever suggest that. *My only comment was
that one possible way to install this type of device in a certified
glider was as a portable device, with the kaviat that the Navworx box
did not appear to be designed with that in mind.

Just for the record, I am not buying an ADS600-B for a variety of
reasons, some of which have been discussed at length in this thread.
It's a little bit frustrating that I am being vilified by a number of
people for suggesting that the soaring community should be putting the
heat on the FAA to solve the ADS-B mess so that we can move ahead and
get products that are affordable and meet the GA / Soaring communities
needs to market. *Instead, what we have is a bunch of people who's view
is that the PowerFLARM savior has come and that their 50% solution is
good enough, so everything is going to be OK.

--
Mike Schumann