Derek, Nigel and Dad
Eventually I'm sure that someone will come up with a system that mounts
right on your glasses and gives a warning signal straight to your eyes, or
generates some sort of virtual heads-up display overlayed on your view of
the world.
In the meantime, LEDs are now available in white, blue, red, green and
orange. So perhaps a non-standard colour set is suitable for those who are
colourblind red and green ? I only observed the FLARM units briefly, and
maybe if multi-colour LEDs are used this is still a problem if you needed
to mount 2 or more LEDs where only one multicolour one is used in a
"normal" FLARM display.
As for my $0.02 worth, although I spent 5 hours wishing I could die instead
of puking over and over again while riding in the back of the DG-1000 (not
sure if it was dehydration, something that I ate, or perhaps not being used
to continued 2G turns in gaggles while swivelling my head to watch all the
other traffic ?), I think that a FLARM repeater display in the back of a
two seater would be useful so that the workload could be shared amongst
both pilots.
Jason
At 03:45 PM 25/11/2005, you wrote:
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2 days: By the end of the flight the next day the power led was flashing ,
but the unit still registered other gliders.
Nigel, I think the unit would be improved immensely by the addition of a
LCD display instead of the LEDs (and a glareshield
), plus a voice option
instead of the alarm (traffic 12 high
)
Derek
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Derek,
How long did those AA batteries last?
Nigel
Nigel Andrews
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The general impression I got was that they worked very well.
In no way can they be regarded as a substitute for a good lookout, and
this point was made very clear at the briefings.
I personally never had an alarm whilst thermalling, although I understand
some pilots did.
I had 2 alarms during the course of the contest: in both cases I had not
seen the approaching glider first:
our paths were not collision courses and avoiding action was not required.
I was, however, pleased that the presence of the other glider was drawn to
my attention before I had noticed it. This alone convinced me of the value
of the FLARM.
Quite frankly I rarely looked at it, so I found it definitely NOT to be a
distraction in the cockpit.
There are some minor issues regarding the design: the unit needs a glare
shield, and perhaps a different display, as the threats are displayed on
red or green LEDs, and thus present problems to colour blind pilots. I
believe there are also some minor problems to be sorted out with the software
All in all, I believe that the trial was very successful
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] FLARM @ KEEPIT
1 Would anyone care to offer any feedback on how the Flarm trial went
at Keepit?
Did anyone find them useful?
2 Gee it's been comparatively quiet on this forum lately. Doesn't
anyone have anything controversial to say?
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