On Dec 4, 12:38*am, "Lars Peder Hansen"
wrote:
Let me try to speak for all of Europe here (hmmm..)

Apart from the usual teething problems with software driven devices, the one
single issue that has crystallized over the years where the European FLARM
has been in use, is the placement of the Flarm antenna (not the GPS antenna,
not the transponder-related stuff (I think Powerflarm has 3 antennas?), but
the Flarm antenna)

The placing of this antenna is crucial to the performance (range, blind
spots) of your FLARM. The antenna must be out in the open, as far away from
metal parts and other items that could block its view as possible.
There is information on the FLARM homepage and Forum, and there is also a
software tool to analyze your FLARM's range.

So if you can only focus on one thing at a time (as your wife will probably
tell you is the case), focus on this installation issue.

Cheers,
Lars Peder
DG-600 EE, Denmark

"SoaringXCellence" wrote in message

... OK, PowerFlarm is coming to the USA

,,,

The $64K question: What can we prepare in advance or need to prepare
to really get the installation to be dirt simple?

I encourage the whole soaring community to chime in here and list
potential installation issues in the hopes that the more we identify
before the actually installation,



BTW PowerFLARM has dual Flarm antennas, one standard and a connector
to allow an additional external mounted antenna as an option.

PowerFLARM (at least in the the USA) also operates at higher power
that Flarm in Europe etc. -- this is for technical reasons due to the
915MHz band it is operating on in the USA. This may reduce sensitivity
to antenna placement.

We'll need to see how all this works in practice once we have units in
out hands.

Darryl