Build Your Own PowerFLARM (Paper Model)
Starting late 2010 the PowerFLARM traffic awareness and collision avoidance product will be available. This will be the first FLARM product available in the USA. Flarm is well proven technology overseas and this is very interesting for glider-on-glider and glider-on-towplane collision avoidance in the USA.
The PowerFLARM dimensions are
- Width: 96 mm / 3.8 inch
- Height: 46 mm / 1.8 inch
- Depth: 94 mm / 3.7 inch
I think the renderings on the PowerFLARM web site makes the unit look slightly larger that it will really be. And as other have pointed out people may be assuming the that slot on the front of the PowerFLARM is an SD card slot when it is a microSD slot. I was giving a talk a few months ago on collision avoidance technology (transponders, ADS-B, Flarm, etc.) and wanted to show the actual size of a PowerFLARM device. There are no devices available quite yet so I made a foam core model and took that along to the talk. I just a shape cut out on the table saw and glued an image from the PowerFLARM web site to the front face. (more…)
