FLARM false poitives

[Luke Szczepaniak]

Hi All, in the numerous FLARM threads I see multiple references to false positives. I had seen many myself before I came across the following config in the dataport:



#Enable Competition Mode - changes warning configuration
#Set 0 to disable, set 2 to enable
$PFLAC,S,CFLAGS,2



After setting this parameter to 2 and configuring my display to only alert me on critical threats the false positives went away completely making for a much more pleasant experience. Those of you who still experience the false positives *may* want to try this. It does not remove any information from your display but it does tighten the alert criteria.


Happy Soaring
Luke

[Tango Eight]

On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 1:57:28 PM UTC-5, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
> Hi All, in the numerous FLARM threads I see multiple references to false positives. I had seen many myself before I came across the following config in the dataport:
>
>
>
> #Enable Competition Mode - changes warning configuration
> #Set 0 to disable, set 2 to enable
> $PFLAC,S,CFLAGS,2
>
>
>
> After setting this parameter to 2 and configuring my display to only alert me on critical threats the false positives went away completely making for a much more pleasant experience. Those of you who still experience the false positives *may* want to try this. It does not remove any information from your display but it does tighten the alert criteria.
>
>
> Happy Soaring
> Luke

I've been doing this for a couple of years at contests. Works great.

T8

[George Haeh]

We got rid of a bunch of false positives on
tow when the glider Flarm aircraft type
was changed from towplane to glider.

[Sean Fidler]

Thanks for sharing Luke. My old portable does this (Buffalos now). Ill fix it. My new core does not, but good to know for the future.