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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes.
Version 6.67 Published 04 March 2019 Platforms Build Expiration All PowerFLARM- and Classic FLARM-based devices a072808ac Not operational after 31 October 2020 Changes since 6.63 Enhancements ï‚¡ PowerFLARM: Suppress warnings from tow aircraft equipped with ADS-B Out, but not FLARM ï‚¡ All: Info Alarms/traffic advisories in saturated situations are moderated such that they can no longer be mistaken as full traffic alarms Thanks to Jerome at Flarm for working on providing this enhancement. GC |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:54:40 PM UTC-7, wrote:
For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes. Version 6.67 Published 04 March 2019 Platforms Build Expiration All PowerFLARM- and Classic FLARM-based devices a072808ac Not operational after 31 October 2020 Changes since 6.63 Enhancements ï‚¡ PowerFLARM: Suppress warnings from tow aircraft equipped with ADS-B Out, but not FLARM ï‚¡ All: Info Alarms/traffic advisories in saturated situations are moderated such that they can no longer be mistaken as full traffic alarms Thanks to Jerome at Flarm for working on providing this enhancement. GC Thanks, just updated. The display shows v6.67, took 5 minutes. Looking forward to trying that. Jim |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 4:54:40 PM UTC-4, wrote:
For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes. What about those tow planes equipped with ADS-B out using UAT (978MHz)? |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 4:05:58 PM UTC-7, kinsell wrote:
On 3/19/19 4:50 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 4:54:40 PM UTC-4, wrote: For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes. What about those tow planes equipped with ADS-B out using UAT (978MHz)? PF doesn't receive 978 MHz, so there shouldn't be alarms generated. Jeez is there anybody who has not been paying attention who actually has equipped a tow plane with UAT Out? |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:18:33 PM UTC-4, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 4:05:58 PM UTC-7, kinsell wrote: On 3/19/19 4:50 PM, wrote: On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 4:54:40 PM UTC-4, wrote: For those towing behind tow planes equipped with ADS-B out (1090MHz), a new version of PowerFlarm firmware 6.67 is now available which should suppress the collision warning from the tow plane's ADS-B out. Below are release notes. What about those tow planes equipped with ADS-B out using UAT (978MHz)? PF doesn't receive 978 MHz, so there shouldn't be alarms generated. Jeez is there anybody who has not been paying attention who actually has equipped a tow plane with UAT Out? skyBeacon is a pretty darn inexpensive and easy to implement way to make a tow plane 2020 compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of people don't go that route, even though it is UAT instead of 1090ES. A big question is exactly how FLARM has suppressed the tow plane ADS-B alarms. Does FLARM recognize the fact that the tow plane and glider are in formation, and only suppress the alarm while the formation flight continues, or does it somehow completely suppress all alarms for the tow plane? You definitely would want to see tow plane alarms after the glider releases from the tow in the event that you accidentally get on a collision course with the tow plane after the completion of the tow. |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
These seem to me to be two examples of difficulty assessing the number of decimal places in looking at probabilities.
Equipping a towplane with UAT says an owner is willing to spend money on ADS-B, but not the flavor that represents the vast majority of collision threats (it's a glider towplane after all). That just seems dopey. UAT is problematic for other reasons too in that it requires ADS-R or a dual-band receiver to be seen by the vast majority of aircraft that have opted for 1090ES and towplanes tend to operate down low where ADS-R services may not be available for other powered traffic. A waste of money that simultaneously makes other people's lives less safe and more difficult. Buying something that's far less likely to work because it's cheap hardly seems like a smart buy. I doubt that Flarm would pick an algorithm that can both identify what's a towplane through formation flight and then blank out the ADS-B ICAO address and never check for towplane behavior again - but even if it did the probability of a towplane releasing a glider and circling around in a climb to become a collision threat seems like and extremely low probability scenario and not a reason to reject/critique the idea of towplane suppression. In 46 years of glider flying I've never, ever seen a towplane do that. Either way towplane suppression is a good idea and I tend to think the Flarm folks are pretty clever. I look forward to trying it out. Andy Blackburn On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 8:44:42 PM UTC-5, Mike Schumann wrote: skyBeacon is a pretty darn inexpensive and easy to implement way to make a tow plane 2020 compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of people don't go that route, even though it is UAT instead of 1090ES. A big question is exactly how FLARM has suppressed the tow plane ADS-B alarms. Does FLARM recognize the fact that the tow plane and glider are in formation, and only suppress the alarm while the formation flight continues, or does it somehow completely suppress all alarms for the tow plane? You definitely would want to see tow plane alarms after the glider releases from the tow in the event that you accidentally get on a collision course with the tow plane after the completion of the tow. |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 6:44:42 PM UTC-7, Mike Schumann wrote:
skyBeacon is a pretty darn inexpensive and easy to implement way to make a tow plane 2020 compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of people don't go that route, even though it is UAT instead of 1090ES. That would be the stupidest thing in the world. "significant number".... bull****. There are very few towplanes anywhere that I know of that are planning to equip with ADS-B Out for 2020 compliance reasons. I'm not aware of any of them going UAT, I had one question asked months ago and that person went away understanding why to use 1090ES Out not UAT. I only hear about ADS-B Out installs that folks ask for help with, but by now I'd hope that enough people know to keep UAT away from PowerFLARM equipped gliders. |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 6:44:42 PM UTC-7, Mike Schumann wrote:
skyBeacon is a pretty darn inexpensive and easy to implement way to make a tow plane 2020 compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of people don't go that route, even though it is UAT instead of 1090ES. A big question is exactly how FLARM has suppressed the tow plane ADS-B alarms. Does FLARM recognize the fact that the tow plane and glider are in formation, and only suppress the alarm while the formation flight continues, or does it somehow completely suppress all alarms for the tow plane? You definitely would want to see tow plane alarms after the glider releases from the tow in the event that you accidentally get on a collision course with the tow plane after the completion of the tow. Good question Mike. If the towplane was FLARM equipped, it wouldn't be annoying as hell like ADS-B alone is - or possibly was before this update. We'll see. Don't understand why there is the UAT crap. Nobody else uses it. If both towplane and glider were just ADS-B equipped, what sort of alarms go off? Is ADS-B-in intelligent enough to suppress alarms for formation flying? I've towed behind FLARM-only towplanes, there is no noise on tow. Jim |
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Flarm suppression of ADS-B out on Tow Planes
A big question is exactly how FLARM has suppressed the tow plane ADS-B alarms. Does FLARM recognize the fact that the tow plane and glider are in formation, and only suppress the alarm while the formation flight continues, or does it somehow completely suppress all alarms for the tow plane? You definitely would want to see tow plane alarms after the glider releases from the tow in the event that you accidentally get on a collision course with the tow plane after the completion of the tow.
Fair question! The suppression works on the geometry of the formation, namely relative headings, relative velocities, relative positions (i.e. vertical and horizontal separation). As soon as the conditions no longer hold, you will get alarms as normal. This is unchanged to how tow trains are handled in FLARM-FLARM situations. The difference is that for ADS-B targets, the device does not know it is a tow plane - ADS-B simply does not give you this kind of metadata - so the logic is applied to all ADS-B targets. As the geometric conditions are really tight, we believe this is acceptable and will not lead to false negatives.. We are interested to hear how well this works, please do send us feedback! - Urban, FLARM |
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