On Aug 10, 12:41*pm, Mike Schumann
wrote:
On 8/9/2010 8:51 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:

On Aug 9, 9:43 am, Steve *wrote:
Curious about the use of Flarm in the US. Was told by another pilot
that the frequency used by Flarm is not approved for that category of
use in the US. Is that true? If it is, do they make units that use a
US approved frequency?

powerflarm units for use in USA will be available later this year.
older flarm units are not for use in USA.

See:http://www.powerflarm.aero/

Hope that helps,
Best Regards, Dave "YO electric"

The PowerFlarm specs specify that they transmit on 868 MHz. *Is this
frequency permitted in the US?

--
Mike Schumann

What you think FLARM have not thought of that?

Be a bit careful readying the PowerFLARM web site, it's clearly
focused on the European market.

PowerFLARM will operate on a different frequency in the USA than
Europe. Flarm already operates on a different frequencies in
Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world. Flarm has had a 915
Mhz frequency planned for use the USA for quite a while, although I
don't know if that is the final decision or not. And current units
have neat automatic frequency section based on location. I don't know
for sure if PowerFLARM will do the automatically location based
frequency change but I've been told by the US distributor that units
purchased here will definitely run overseas (for example for traveling
contest pilots).

Darryl