I mounted the antennas up in the nose on my ASW-15B (attached to the fiberglass bulkhead that is forward of the rudder pedals and contains the pitot and nose vent plenum). I was relieved to find it delivered good range in all directions when tested with other Powerflarm equipped gliders and evaluated with the online tool. There's not near enough space between the glare shield and canopy to mount it up top. I was worried that the rudder pedals would be close enough to the antenna to have an unacceptable adverse effect but even though I fly with the pedals all the way forward this is not the case.

I'm using an LX8080 Simple (which doesn't have a built in GPS and logger) set up to communicate with the Powerflarm so it can act as the GPS source and logger. The display is a Flarmview 57. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it all was to get set up and running. It was "plug and play" really. Fabricating the brackets and properly running the wiring for the Powerflarm was the only hard part. The units all talked to each other properly right out of the box with no configuration problems. The 8080 even provides switched power to the Powerflarm. I'm impressed with how useful the Powerflarm is and don't want to fly without one now. Above all else it's a great adjunct to the visual scan. I find the alerts from powered traffic transponders useful too despite the fact that in my area the only time they are triggered is when a TCAS equipped aircraft is passing over and is interrogating them.

I do wish the Flarmview could command the Powerflarm to copy the igc. file to the USB drive the way the Butterfly displays do though. I'm told that's coming in the next update. I prefer it to the Butterfly display in all other ways but I do have to switch the units off, plug in the USB drive and switch them back on again in order to download the trace of my flight.