On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 10:29:46 AM UTC-4, Tango Eight wrote:
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 10:08:08 AM UTC-4, Papa3 wrote:
The US 15M/Standard Class Nationals required FLARM to be in stealth mode for the duration of the contest. I have to say, I absolutely enjoyed the experience. FLARM became what it was always supposed to be - a collision avoidance tool - rather than a tactical leaching tool. I found that I would get alerts for gliders in the same thermal or approaching/exiting the thermal up to about 1 mile away, but no more. Not a single surprise conflict from a FLARM-equipped glider.

I wonder if others had the same positive experience. I would hope other contests would consider requiring Stealth Mode.


Erik Mann (P3)

How (or was) was this monitored/enforced?

-Evan Ludeman / T8

Flarm logs were required at the start of the contest to verify that devices were in Stealth. It was made clear that on any day a compliance log could be requested. On one day all equipped gliders were required to submit logs.
I agree with Erik. Flarm worked as intended and I did not hear on anyone complaining about degraded safety margins.
Well done HH.
UH