Hi all, As an engineering student I independently came up with the concept as a final year project - then discovered FLARM had beaten me to it a few years earlier. As part of my research at the time I am confident I found promotional material where the FLARM protocol would be "released to the public in the interest of safety". Clearly this policy changed as adoption increased.
Frankly - a device that uses a GPS and an all-in-one RF chip to sense collision risks was within the capability of a single final-year student a decade ago. I'd imagine it'd be much easier today, with low-cost sensors, Chinese PCB fabrication etc. There is enough talent on this list to develop a similar product several times over. The idea that a "rogue" device would cause a dangerous situation seems laughable. Flarm does not used licensed radio frequencies and has to accept the risk of interference from other devices anyway. One risk would be if someone makes a competing device by reverse-engineering the protocol and stuffs it up. This risk is minimised by opening the protocol in the first place. Open protocols brought us things like free email (imagine if each one cost 5 cents to send!), the Web, and the entire PC clone market. Ideally the aviation regulators would have championed a simple, cheap, easy to implement standard before a closed one became a monopoly. Best regards, Al On 08/03/2016, tom.wilk...@internode.on.net <tom.wilk...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > To:"Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > Cc: > Sent:Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:51:44 +1030 > Subject:Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email > Circulation > > Mercy sakes. You guys are going to run me out of popcorn soon. > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
