Nearly similar discussion is going on on segelflug.de
Started because of the nice features the "FLARM Butterfly Display"
has.

This displays is in my eyes, as a non competition pilot, a real nice
gadget.
Hello Henryk, whats about transferring this in GPS_LOG.
Problem is, that in competition other pilots might have advantage from
the information flarm sends when privacy is "off"
Remember even when privacy is on, the flarm sends all information
needed for collision warning.
As i understand the butterfly system, they do not show on their
display information about relevant data as climbrate and so on, if the
pilot using the butterfly sytem has its flarm in the privacy "on". I
think thats fair.
Butterfly states that the wheter the privacy was on that day can
simply be read out at the end of the day.So if on a competition the
rule says "no pricay" this could easily be checked at the end of the
day.
As in Germany even competition have to fly in crowded airspace, only
thinking about competition pilots is not enough as every other pilot
around gets not full information when privacy is on.
Cheers
Ruediger







On 4 Feb., 18:14, Henryk Birecki wrote:
" wrote:
Has anyone else looked at the new SeeYou 3.0 feature which allows you
to track a certain FLARM unit? This would seem to allow for real-time
location of teammates in competitions. Is this the first piece of
software to have this function? If not, how have you Europeans been
dealing with what seems to be a game-changing development?

Depends on what you mean as real time.. and tracking. GPS_LOG (maybe
some other software) had display of FLARM objects in range for very
long time on TCAS display which you could have used for tracking.
GPS_LOG, WinPilot and SeeYou have a team flying feature where position
is announced to the teammmates by voice radio and is "encoded".
GPS_LOG is has settings to make it compatible with both SeeYou and
WinPilot. Does anyone use these features is another story.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki