Hi Tim, In the main, I enjoy your posts, and often have a quite laugh ..... Like the bit about the specs. Unfortunately, with the average age of the Oz glider pilot being what it is, this is very sound advice, but a good laugh nevertheless. [BTW my new lenses are just one week old.]
As the sign on the dunny door says; LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT. I agree with you re a club based co-ordinated change. Thanks to Brian Wood most of the flarms in Grampians Soaring Club fleet, including those in private gliders were updated today, and two currently absent ships will be done tomorrow. Cheers, Gary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Shirley Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015 8:32 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] FLARM update Hi all, Flarms are standalone devices. They won't stop working tomorrow, because there is nothing to stop them working. A Flarm on V5 will see a Flarm on V5 just the same for ever, so it is probably better for the upgrade at a club, or in an area where gliders often fly together, to be co-ordinated. Making an instant change to your own Flarm might simply disable yours :) Flarm is being 100% consistent in its policy, and if that is irresponsible well then more irresponsibility from Tony Abbott would be good (if that is possible). They have NEVER guaranteed that a major version upgrade is backward compatible, in fact they have always said that any backward compatibility between major versions is coincidental. I make no comment on the reasons or the necessity for this policy. There's nothing wrong with a Flarm, except for the far too high expectations we have of it. Just look out the window - no version changes required but make sure your specs are up to spec. Cheers Tim Shirley tra dire é fare c' é mezzo il mare On 14/03/2015 6:54 PM, Matthew Scutter wrote: FYI: FLARM has now published it's latest update - v6. It's available here: http://flarm.com/support/firmware-updates/ The protocols in the current version (v5) and new version (v6) are supposedly totally incompatible, so please update your FLARMs before next flight or you won't be able to see pilots with the other version. <soapbox opinion> I think it's very irresponsible of FLARM to publish a backwards incompatible upgrade like this. I am glad I am not flying in the Alps this weekend. </opinion> _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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