The US Rules Committee is participating with the BGA, IGC and FLARM to consider changes to Stealth mode to address concerns related to providing robust collision avoidance without turning FLARM data into a tactical tool. While the final result is whatever FLARM decides, we are awaiting the changes and will evaluate their suitability in US contests when the information is available.

Then we can start an interesting debate on the wisdom of forcibly implementing degradation of a collision avoidance system for 2016, based on a spec that is not yet written, software not coded, not debugged, not tried in real world conditions, and all the "oh, I didn't think of thats" discovered.

For example, suppose we can see further head on. Joe sees Larry, shifts left.. whoops, there was Bob, blanked out because he wasn't a collision threat.. Oh yeah... Or Joe zooms up, but we handn't thought that at 15,000' you can gain 1,000' in a zoomie. Oh yeah... Or someone translated meters to feet wrong.

Just about the whole RC has extensive experience with software development. Really guys, would you ever do this in the real world?

John Cochrane BB