Another very handy use of the XCsoar flarm radar is to check the range for the Flarm. I maintain the Flarms in my club and often they have the RF chip that is damaged, they work only at short range. Relying on the info provided by the club members flying in each glider has proved inaccurate and I needed a way to verify the range without flying. The flarm radar tells you the range of the other flarm, usually if I get over 500m range on the ground then the flarm range is acceptable. If you just have the leds you do not know which other flarm you are picking up.
Jax -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Bieniek [mailto:tobias.bien...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:17 PM To: Max Kellermann Cc: xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Xcsoar-user] XCSoar Flarm Functionality (was loss of connection to Flarm via IOIO on Streak 5) > I don't think replacing the FLARM LEDs and its acoustic warning was a > goal, so (without checking the code) I don't think PFLAA is really > used for anything. Correct. > XCSoar shows only traffic (aircraft symbols on the map and in the > radar), but does not show alerts. Not quite right since we do show targets with alerts in a different color and deemphasize the other targets in such a situation. I agree though that our flarm radar should _not_ replace a proper display that is dedicated to alerts! Turbo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
