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Flarm
From my reading of flarm and my limited knowledge about the product.
I understand that you could in theory have the location of other gliders on screen and use it to your advantage during a competition given that it transmits such data? www.flarm.com |
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Flarm
Yes, but that would be wrong ;-)
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Flarm
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:13:02 GMT, "Mal" wrote:
I understand that you could in theory have the location of other gliders on screen and use it to your advantage during a competition given that it transmits such data? The range of FLARM is very limited, so FLARM won't show any glider that you copuld not see with your own eyes. Bye Andreas |
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Flarm
FLARM's range is around 2-3 km, subject to antenna installation.
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Flarm
The announced range is 1-3 km, but the alarm/display filters whatever is not
within 18 seconds of an impact. You won't see any ship sensibly higher or lower, or not sensibly converging ... so you couldn't really use it "at your advantage" unless you build your own FLARM-compatible receiver ! Jean "Andreas Maurer" a écrit dans le message de ... On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:13:02 GMT, "Mal" wrote: I understand that you could in theory have the location of other gliders on screen and use it to your advantage during a competition given that it transmits such data? The range of FLARM is very limited, so FLARM won't show any glider that you copuld not see with your own eyes. Bye Andreas |
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