On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 10:04:36 PM UTC-5, Tom BravoMike wrote:
If ADS-B/In provides the 3D information, which is next used in a variety of softwa ForeFlight, iFlyGPS, XCSoar (pending, hopefully), what can stop the programmers to calculate potential collisions and give similar alerts to those of FLARM? Isn't it all about universality of the system and availability of reliable data between ALL users of the airspace: powerplanes, gliders, trikes AND drones?

Tom BravoMike

BraveMike, compute power is the only thing that might stop this , but I doubt it will since hardware performance is accelerating at high rate (maybe with the exception of WGC gaggles). PowerFlarm has very low compute power, probably to keep power consumption low and to keep hardware cost low (although that has not been passed onto a consumer). When PowerFlarm was invented hardware computing power was low so they made the best algorithm possible and it worked for many years.

The drones will probably drive this market. They will have to have technology to avoid collisions. I would also think that lower cost and energy efficient transponders are going to show up as well.

Just my opinion, I can't predict the future.