Hi!

I recently bought a device called "air connect" to send collision warning information from my PowerFlarm device to Skydemon. Using a Y-Cable I still have the butterfly display connected to the PowerFlarm device so that I can compare the visualization in Skydemon with what PowerFlarm displays on its butterfly display.

The question is:
I sometimes see other traffic in Skydemon, shown as green airplanes, which are either Flarm or ADS-B sources and that's fine. But because for Mode-S XPDR PowerFlarm cannot have a precise location of the source, the butterfly display shows a circle around my airplane.

I have not seen these circles in Skydemon yet while these circles were shown on the butterfly display. I have the impression that Skydemon is not showing these. Is there anything I need to set up?

Thanks in advance!

T.

Thanks for the information.

I have used a PCAS for several years and can confirm an audible warning is pretty much essential. Unexpected traffic encounters always seem to come when you are doing something else, looking at the map, changing sqwark etc. Its very good to hear an alarm saying look out of the window!

I don't expect to be looking at traffic on screen when there is an alarm going off, but I am hoping it will give me a  greater awareness of other traffic around me before it gets close. 

With my PCAS system, there have been a couple of occasions where it has been giving out an alarm of something very close at the same height and no matter where I look I cannot visually acquire the other aircraft, even after it has moved further away.  In these circumstances I usually change height. Any direction info on screen might help at that point however at the moment there are not many ADSB aircraft out there.

It always surprises me how many very expensive aircraft are out there with no transponder or flarm.  I had a lovely view of a Bucker Jungmann / Tiger Moth  last month. I believe they are worth 100k so not sure why anyone would fly a 100k aircraft without spending 3k on a transponder and flarm.

I've emailed the CAA to see if I can go on the ADSB trail.