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Old April 29th 18, 05:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Notable Power Flarm saves - Is it 'worth it'?

On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 7:02:21 PM UTC-7, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Title is "Notable Power Flarm saves - is it worth it"?

The answer is, it is worth it BEFORE it saves your bacon! When it saves your "bacon" is when it pays off. As noted by J Fitch, who somehow can get situational awareness off a tiny winny iPhone screen Imagine a 7 inch screen mounted in panel that tells where your traffic is and color codes it as to below (green), above (blue) or same level (red). Now imagine this same device actually telling you while graphically showing you where to look, "Traffic 20 feet above 1/2 mile". That is a lot of situational sh*t for your awareness.


Actually my tiny 5.7" iPhone screen does all of that too. I think those who only have the old (or new) Flarm screen are missing a lot of the value. If those targets are always on your tactical screen, you already know where to look for them before the Bitchin' Betty starts to bark.