Announcement: no USA FLARM-related rules changes for 2016

On 1/20/2016 10:53 AM, John Godfrey (QT) wrote:
The USA Rules Committee will not recommend any changes to the existing rules related to FLARM for the 2016 season.

John Godfrey (QT), Chair

Good call RC, I don't feel strongly STEALTH versus OPEN but I think it
is imperative that we don't mandate stuff that hasn't been tested yet,
let alone not even developed by the hardware vendor....

Luke Szczepaniak

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 10:53:18 AM UTC-5, John Godfrey (QT) wrote:
The USA Rules Committee will not recommend any changes to the existing rules related to FLARM for the 2016 season.

John Godfrey (QT), Chair

The only factor I am interested in is does a flarm in the cockpit of soaring pilot decrease the potential for a collision. Even if the answer is yes, the argument will still be around that it does help leeching.
You are never going to eliminate leeching unless you monitor logs for leeching and either disqualify or penalize people for doing so.

My opinion is, the flarm does help avoid collisions and therefore helps to make the sport safer.