I think common sense should be applied. In unobscured air with good visibility the alarm going off just serves to keep your eyes open and a glance at the Flarm to ensure that no-one is in your blind spots. See and avoid should work quite well in these situations.
In the situation with poor visibility and a warning of a head on collision, then why can't the glider with the head on-collision warning break to their right (with the exception being a poor visibilty ridge flight)? In the situation where both aircraft are approaching head on, collision is avoided. In the instance of a glider overtaking another from behind, the collsion is avoided (the glider with the rear collision warning takes no action). > I see a potential problem in a busy gaggle at a comp where > the Flarm can be going off almost all the time. I love > it as a safety device in these circumstances, but if I > had to avoid every warning I couldn't see I could never > be in the thermal in the first place! > > Tom > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in > Australia." <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:59 PM > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Rules for using Flarm > > > > There has been some recent discussion over a glass of > > Red on how we should be using our Flarms. > > > > As glider pilots have been trained to lookout and when > > they see a threat then they take avoiding action. > > > > We have been told of an incident when two gliders were > > in a head on collision situation as warned by the Flarm, > > they were in a near cloud base situation and openly > > confess to not taking avoidance action until they > actually saw one another. That action resulted in a save > > but it was very close. > > > > I would like to see some debate on setting rules on how > > we use Flarm. Do we > > say the rule is that we use it to help spot other > > gliders (the old see and avoid model) or do we get > > ourselves trained into automatically taking avoidance > action even before we spot the other glider? > > > If there is a consensus that we use the latter then how > is it implemented. > > > Richard Robinson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > [email protected] > > To check or change subscription details, visit: > > > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG. > > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1388 - > > Release Date: 20/04/2008 3:01 PM > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
