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Have just read he "Report from Friedrichshafen" by Dave
Nadler in the Sept issue of SSA Soaring.
There he says that Flarm is a not-for-profit
organisation. I was not aware of that.
He also says that 450 Flarms were flying at end 2004
..... with 2600 shipped since then (I assume this is to
Countries he lists below).
Based on his advice that there are 1200 Gliders in
Switzerland, 500 in Austria and 7000 in Germany and if the above assumption is
correct, that means they have a take-up rate that may be as high as 35% in
a comparatively short time.
But WE need to evaluate whether this
is worthwhile.
I can understand that there is an issue re frequencies
and Dave mentions that as an issue for the USA, as well as Product Liability
Insurance for the US, ............ but does anyone really think that
it needs a great deal of evaluation when the Europeans pilots and
owners are voting with their wallets.
But I guess that someone will still argue, as they did
recently on this forum, that Flarm shouldn't be adopted here because
they will promote poor lookout practice ... and double negatives.
Save for the technical issues ............. LET'S GET
ON WITH THEIR ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION HERE, and try to save a life or
2.
Is the GFA talking with the Insurers
yet?
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