Mike Cleaver wrote:
[ FLARM ]
The unit contains an internal GPS engine and transmits GPS position
about once a second. It also receives other units' position over a
range of around 3km and displays them as a conflict alert when they get
too close.
No, that's a common misconception. FLARM emits a conflict alert
when they get too close *and there is a risk of collision*.
Proximity with diverging headings won't cause an alarm. Proximity
with converging headings will.
So it can be used in a crowded thermal. It might be occasionally
annoying, but not in the way that a lot of people who haven't quite
"got" the idea that it isn't a basic proximity alarm seem to think.
It will deal with a gaggle without constantly "going off", as long
as the gliders in the gaggle aren't converging on each other.
(I'm not sure why you said "Correct in part" as if I'd posted some
kind of inaccuracy, then went on to post a heap of stuff which didn't
contradict any of my comments at all, only barely even /addressed/ them,
and which was, itself, inaccurate :-)
- mark
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