Head-On Collision Avoidance - NEW SteFly Canopy Flasher 

Degrease an aircraft canopy made of acrylic glass / PMMA / Plexiglas® only with isopropanol or benzene-free cleaning naphtha! Other solvent such as acetone or methanol / alcohol may cause cracks / permanent damage!

Very interesting, well done! It's really hard to capture what they look like in real life on video, but that gives a good demo. If I didn't already have the Sotech, I would buy one immediately!

Thanks!

Bravo! what a great design!

Really nice, love the green color 😍

Is it only available with a green light? I saw the IGC is proposing that gliders need to have a red or white strobe for contests.

This is great for head-on collision avoidance. 👍 Next project for you could be an omni-directional strobe light that goes on top of the tail, that will improve visibility for gliders in the same thermal…

Nice video. I'd be really careful which solvents I let near a polymer canopy, isopropyl alcohol is mostly safe, something just called 'cleaning spirit' might be a mixture of many solvents and could contain a problem. Good idea to have a USB charge socket inside the cockpit. How long before people attach green light sensors to their tails and play at chasing each other until it records a 'kill'?

That is pretty darn cool!

what also help with visibility is having a livery on the glider the color verkehrsrot really sticks out

The relative sensitivity of the retina to color is one of several factors that determines conspicuity. I'd like to see someone mount red, white, and green flashers on an airplane and empirically determine which color is noticed first. What works in the Dolomites might not work as well against a forested mountain.

Welche Saugnäpfe verwendet ihr für die Kamerahalterung?

Very nice. Just curious--why did you decide to go with a green flasher instead of a red one?

My Silent2 Electro is not listed for the flasher.

Gold job

Just ordered one from your web-site. Thank you for continuing to ship to the UK. So many smaller European suppliers have given up on that! Another victory for the most stupid political decision ever!

That's a cool device. Did you know that lidar lasers can detect dust in the air and even measure which direction it is moving at different distances from the laser? I started doing research on this when I discovered that I could see more of a dust devil with polarized sun glasses on than with my naked eyes. I thought, what if there was something that could see the dust even better and found lidar lasers. I believe that someday someone with money will finally figure this out and mount one that rotates in a full circle on the top of the tail or maybe on the bottom of the glider so it can sweep downward and forward. There is always some level of particulate in the air so the laser will be able to see what air is moving up, what air is moving down, and how fast it's moving. Air that is particularly thick with particulate will also be a signal of a thermal. The pilot will have something similar to a radar screen in the cockpit that updates as the laser rotates. This will give a map of all of the thermals within a couple of miles of the glider. With this thing you will be able to see all of the thermals that you used to fly right by because they were 400ft to the right of your flight path. Lol This device will likely spark a lot of debate once it's made. Can you imagine someone showing up to a competition with one and being allowed to use it because there's no rule against it? Lol New records will be broken with it too. All I ask is that whoever takes this and turns it into reality gives it my name and gives me credit.

Great, you’ve convinced me to buy one now… 😂

Brilliant. Would the canopy flasher affect canopy jettison procedure?

Super :)

In my opinion glider producers should install this kind of stuff in every single new glider by standard. For safety reason each present glider owner should by obliged to install this strobe light as well. What when if we only focused on to someone's bright flashing lights in the airborne and then nonflashing glider user came suddenly from nowhere? It will be better for our community than each glider obligatory could has that stuff.

Glaubst du das ist auch ne gute Idee mit dem Laser am Hang? Ich meine da haben wir ja oft starke Vorhalte Winkel, die dazu führen, dass man bei „frontalem Kollisionskurs“ die Nasen nicht aufeinander gerichtet…. Wenn der Laser zu wenig streut, besteht doch dann auch einfach die Gefahr, dass man am Lichtkegel vorbei fliegt, oder?

What paint did you use for your instrument panel?

Bomba!

What is the mysterious black box behind your panel, on the top?

Would be nice if it could detect other flashers and let you know there location

Ayvri software will be shutting down. Do you have a similar alternative ?

is it a strobe light or a laser? a laser that starts giving you voice warning signals when another aircrafts intercept the leaser by heading head on towards you is what i thought this was, this is the one technology that all aircrafts should have.

Habt ihr eine sollbruchstelle, für den notabwurf, im Kabel?

Moin Stephan, ich bin ja Stoffflieger... gibt es sowas auch für´s Paragliden?

Geht das an einer ask18 oder ask13?

the light impuls has to be a series of flashes..not single flashes...single flashes can be not seen by blinking, and by interpretation of reflection. The idea is good, but the frequency must be adjusted.

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A laser leveler fom the construction industry would have been a better way to get a center line.

Great idea but I think in a lot of countries it might not be allowed or at least you need a special permit .

Hi Stefan, deine Videos gefallen mir sehr gut. Da du ja in Deutschland unterwegs bist, könntest du auch in Deutsch kommunizieren. Nicht jeder ist des Englischen so mächtig, immer alles zu verstehen.

Either that's a rebranded Sotecc flasher, or you directly ripped off their product. Like, the control box even uses the same connector series as the Sotecc connect box...

Titel Foto sehr gut fur Werbung , dann unter Wolke weinig zu sehen also reales leben . Das ganze kostet nicht weinig und efekte eher Null .