On Friday, March 23, 2012 8:53:21 AM UTC-5, T8 wrote:
Crickets....

No other contest user reports?

T8

My impression of the rental powerflarms units was very much the same as TA reported.
First let me go on record as saying that I want very much for the powerflarm concept to work. I plan to install a "brick" in my glider - when available and when they work.
I had three near misses in thermals. The powerflarm alarm would sound and a second or two later the near miss would occur. The range was unacceptably poor...
Other issues I had with the portable units we The display was very hard to read in the cockpit with my sunglasses on. The warning "beeps" could have been louder so as to be heard above the radio and audio vario. The display of transponder equiped aircraft with no directional information did me very little good.
I look forward to trying powerflarm again, after they have had a chance to make it work better.

Don (DK)