FLARM false poitives

Hi All, in the numerous FLARM threads I see multiple references to false positives. I had seen many myself before I came across the following config in the dataport:



#Enable Competition Mode - changes warning configuration
#Set 0 to disable, set 2 to enable
$PFLAC,S,CFLAGS,2



After setting this parameter to 2 and configuring my display to only alert me on critical threats the false positives went away completely making for a much more pleasant experience. Those of you who still experience the false positives *may* want to try this. It does not remove any information from your display but it does tighten the alert criteria.


Happy Soaring
Luke

On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 1:57:28 PM UTC-5, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
Hi All, in the numerous FLARM threads I see multiple references to false positives. I had seen many myself before I came across the following config in the dataport:



#Enable Competition Mode - changes warning configuration
#Set 0 to disable, set 2 to enable
$PFLAC,S,CFLAGS,2



After setting this parameter to 2 and configuring my display to only alert me on critical threats the false positives went away completely making for a much more pleasant experience. Those of you who still experience the false positives *may* want to try this. It does not remove any information from your display but it does tighten the alert criteria.


Happy Soaring
Luke

I've been doing this for a couple of years at contests. Works great.

T8

We got rid of a bunch of false positives on
tow when the glider Flarm aircraft type
was changed from towplane to glider.

Thanks for sharing Luke. My old portable does this (Buffalos now). Ill fix it. My new core does not, but good to know for the future.