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FLARM and PilotAware, leaders in Electronic Conspicuity and Situational Awareness for both powered and non-powered aircraft in Europe, today announced their cooperation on technology integration and product development to provide comprehensive and interoperable solutions for Electronic Conspicuity. Electronic Conspicuity is a vital component of future airspace. With the ever-increasing complexity, interoperability will be key to […]

ADS-L is a new technical standard for Electronic Conspicuity developed by EASA together with an expert group. Version 1 of the standard was released in December 2022 and meets the requirements of SERA.6005 (c): Aircraft emitting ADS-L are considered electronically visible and may enter U-Space airspace. With the next firmware update, PowerFLARM generation devices will […]

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) recently published their annual safety review for 2023. They observed a significant reduction in mid-air collision events since the introduction of FLARM to the UK’s glider fleet. To quote: There were 15 collisions between gliders during the period (2003 through 2023, ed.), resulting in 12 of the gliders […]

What is it all about? One of the defining characteristics of the FLARM ecosystem from the outset was the obligation to carry out regular software updates: the devices are given an “expiration date” before which an update must be carried out. If the date is exceeded without an update, an error message is displayed and […]

Just in time for the upcoming regulations, the FAA and EASA have approved our Atom UAV and Aurora products for Remote ID. The DoCs are officially listed here: EASA: Atom UAV (all versions), Aurora FAA: Atom UAV and Atom UAV (OEM) Further information can be found on our website.

Whenever you fly an aircraft, chances are that you are perfectly identifiable and trackable almost everywhere. Aviation tracking websites like flightradar24 or FlightAware have made identifying, locating, and following an airplane very simple (and fun). Multiple tracking technologies are used to achieve this: ADS-B, MLAT, and FLARM. Flight data is stored in a database and can be recovered by […]