In my extremely limited experience flying with Flarm, I find that it's a
great situational awareness tool. I've had it alert me of a glider
overtaking me and it was nice to know there was another glider in the
vicinity. For close flying (formation, gaggles), you just can't beat
the Mk-I eyeball.

I currently have all the range settings at maximum for my amusement,
being the only glider in the sky this time of year (except for today,
Billy Hill flew with me in the wave). It also allows me to get used to
it so I can tighten up the settings so as to not be disturbed with
meaningless information.

On 1/11/2017 12:07 PM, Tom BravoMike wrote:
I've flown in gaggles. I don't see how any electronic displays and/or sounds can replace "see and avoid" attitude in a gaggle, with distances of just tens of meters. You have to turn your neck/head/eyes around all the time rather than be distracted by the instruments. I believe devices like FLARM are useful at distances slightly bigger than those in a gaggle. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I have no experience flying with FLARM.

Tom BravoMike


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