FLARM for SAR

Swiss Flarm is commercial enterprise that has given us a
tremendously useful instrument and code to aid see and
avoid and reduce collisions between gliders.

The appropriate primary instruments to aid SAR are
ELTs/PLBs and, to a lesser extent, SPOT. IMHO it is
irresponsible to fly XC without a locator beacon - especially
over difficult terrain.

If the Swiss Flarm company have been able to assist
efforts to locate downed pilots who don't have, or haven't
been able to operate, an emergency locator beacon of
some sort then surely that is to be applauded rather than
to be taken as grounds for (to me paranoid seeming)
complaints that they exercise their right to protect their
intellectual property and also to prioritise where they direct
their resources?

John Galloway







At 22:27 17 November 2012, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 08:59 17 November 2012,
wrote:
On Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:38:38 AM UTC+1,
FLARM wrote:
What you are suggesting is that when an aircraft is
missing, anyone
shoul=
d be able to fire up their own homebuilt LFLA analysis
tool with whatever
d=
ata they have, then call SAR authorities to give them
directions?=20
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They would file that call with the calls from fortune-
tellers and other
n=
utters.

How sad you don't answer any of my questions. All this
new post does is
rep=
eat how stupid the rest of the world must be compared
to you, that nobody
e=
lse will ever be clever enough to analyse LFLA as good
as you do. That's
no=
t a good starting point for a serious discussion.

Why don't you publish your analysis tool under a free
license? That not
onl=
y allows authorities to respond faster to urgent
situations withou
having
=
to wait for you to wake up, but will also allow others to
improve it,
inste=
ad of starting from scratch. You do want to improve
response times an
SAR
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quality, don't you?

Because they are Swiss, they hide things like terrorists
bank accounts an
such. It would also appear they hide information which
could save a life a
well, why am I not surprised.