On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 10:22:32 AM UTC-8, Andrzej Kobus wrote:
From Rules Committee:

"This is where we are as of today for 2016 FLARM-related rules that will be recommended to the SSA BOD (note that rules are proposed by the RC and approved by the SSA BOD - this year at the Greenville convention):

1. For National Contests:
* Organizers may request a waiver to require the use of FLARM, otherwise carrying a FLARM is at the pilots' option
* Regardless of whether a FLARM is mandatory or optional in a National Contest, if a FLARM is used it must be operated in Competition (i.e. the expected derivative of the current Stealth mode)"


I simply can not believe that RC would propose to use technology that does not exist. You have no clue what it takes to create and test software.

You guys would not survive in a corporate world a month.

Thank God, there is SSA BOD to stop this madness. It would have been a different story if the technology already existed and it was proven and field tested.

Have a Marry Christmas, Andrzej

I don't subscribe to the big sky theory of collision avoidance on the whites. If there is a cloud base, everyone is at it, so altitudes are usually the same. Because it is a long ridge line, everyone tends to fly the best line, so the flight corridor tends to be very tight. Speeds can be near Vne in both directions. Head-on glider profiles are nearly impossible to see until the last minute. That's why procedure Alpha was developed. FLARM is helpful, but not sufficient. not everyone has it. If I collide with one of the few guys that still hasn't installed it, my day is still AFU.

Matt