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Nigel
What will be the position of Flarm
equipped foreign machines coming here to fly?
Can they adjust to fit with your
proposed units?
Regards Geoff
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:39
PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Reply to Rolf -
More information on Flarm
Hi Rolf,
The expected release from here would be around
Xmas - New year as we had to
write all the code ourselves as the FLARM
people are less than helpful in
that area ( I guess they want to protect
their sales ). The RF protocol is
what we need to get right so we have
compatability. The second problem with
the Swiss units is that they
transmit on a band that is not used here, nor
legal. However, the
transceiver chip they use can be re programmed to one we
can use here -
complicated but ops normal for these standards. I will keep
everyone up to
date with progress, our aim is to provide units at Oz
acceptable pricing so
no one has an excuse not to fit one, currently the
Swiss units are around
$900.00 plus GST - we hope to get it down to under
$500.00.
Your
comments on fitment are pretty much the same as the others who have
emailed
myself, I know of at least 30 others so far who want one, I am sure
that
will increase.
Cheers
Nigel
Nigel
Andrews
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Behalf Of rolf a.
buelter
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:48
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject:
[Aus-soaring] More information on Flarm
Nigel, you inadvertantly
already answered one of my questions on Ozflarm,
regarding compatability
with the original. My second burning question is
availability. When can it
be used by competition pilots? I am of the firm
opinion that the use of
Flarm (as long as legal) has little to do with the
GFA or comp organisers
but is an individual choice. I don't buy the argument
that all must
have i to make it work either. If 2 of 50 competitors have it
installed
(myself and one other) the risk of a midair is reduced by 4 %.
I'm
prepared to start like that, hoping that non equipped gliders will
sooner or
later be outcasts.
So - when can we have it?
Best
regards - Rolf
snip
>FLARM which is well progressed, which will
have compatibility with
>SWISS FLARM , and , ADS-B. ADS-B will require
the addition of a
>receiver, which we are developing for the G.A
market.
>
>Cheers
>
>Nigel
>
>
>
>
>
>Nigel
Andrews
>
>Technical Director
>
>Avionics
Australasia Pty Ltd
>
>"A Queensland Company devoted to Research
and Development, Avionics
>manufacturing and sales in aviation
electronics"
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Robert
>Hart
>Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:58
PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Discussion of issues relating to Soaring
>in
>Australia.
>Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] More
information on Flarm
>
>
>Peter and Mandy Temple
wrote:
>
>G'day all,
>
>
>
>I've received
further information on operation of the Flarm. All of the
>improvements
that I considered (and more) were already in the unit that
>I flew with
in France! See the report dated 6 September on
>http://www.users.on.net/~mwilson/vinon2005/
><http://www.users.on.net/%7Emwilson/vinon2005/>
>
>
>
>Many
thanks for the info - very interesting. I look forward to hearing
>how
the trials go at Gawler.
>
>With the reports we have been getting
from Europe, it sounds as if
>FLARM is a truly excellent device. There
is only one issue I have with
>it: if the gliding world in Oz adopts
FLARM, how are we going to
>interface to the rest of aviation (who will
be using ADS-B).
>
> >From what Migel Andrews has been saying,
it is relatively easy to add
>ADS-B
>reception to FLARM. This will
give the gliding world information about
>what the rest of aviation is
doing in the sky around them, but it won't
>give the rest of aviation
information about the gliders in the sky.
>Adding ADS-B transmit is a
problem in terms of power usage, but I can
>see another prolem too. If
gliders start xmitting ADS-B info (in
>addition to FLARM), it will be
necessary to suppress the ADS-B info
>from other gliders to prevent
alarms going off all over the place in
>gaggles and
such.
>
>Having read the article posted here a week or so ago
(written by
>someone in GA I think - I can't find the article in the
archive), I am
>not sure that the rest of the aviation world is quite
aware of the
>problems that ADS-B has for glider
operations.
>
>--
>
>Robert
Hart
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>
>+61
(0)438 385 533
>
>Brisbane,
Australia
http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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