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Collision Avoidance - Power Flarm


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Tim

Wondering if you have any plans to take a feed from a Collision Avoidance unit such as the Power Flarm? The latest type of unit like this can show Flarm, ADSB, Mode C and Mode S  .. with varying degrees of positional accuracy due to the nature of the data.

Other similar units are the one from Funkwerk and one other on the LXAvionics website. The Funkwerk already integrates with FlyMap I think.

I gather from LX that Airbox are developing a feed as they have talked to John Delafield.

What do others think?

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This is something we get requests for occasionally, but we aren't actively working on anything right now.
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Tim

Fair enough but just seems that the technology is starting to look sensible now that ADSB, Flarm, Mode S & C are all being fed into one box to give decent alerts.

Might be the time to assess again.

... and it might not!

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I would like to second David's request.



Why not poll SD subscribers to ask what features they would like.



For me, anti collision is far more desirable than Vnav, other traffic is an important part of a pilots situational awareness.



Brgds,



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I'd like to anti-collision too please - its an area where SD is in danger of being left behind and it seems to compliment SDs creationof SD Light etc.
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