Roger Roger
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Anybody out there working on their 2020 mandate? Some of the stuff out there right now is pretty cool.
ADS-B equipage
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Roger Roger
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Track up bro!Why is your chart upside-down? Puppies are crying everywhere.
RedBaron2000
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206 with Bonaire conversion? Or 207?
Roger Roger
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Track, the system as set up doesn't have a heading input.
That's cool for your personal use, but there are some gotchas with the portable stuff. For one thing, if you were an aircraft owner it doesn't do out so it doesn't meet the 2020 rule. It also means no one else will see you on their display (at least outside of ground based tis coverage, and even then only if you have a mode c transponder), and depending on the equipment type of other traffic you may not get anything.
Ye venerable Lead Sledde.
Capt. Chaos
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In from the Beta test!
And we have an iPad.
And we have an iPad.
Roger Roger
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You meet the freeflight folks?In from the Beta test!
And we have an iPad.
Capt. Chaos
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Not yet, we are slated for "sometime" this winter. They did upgrades on Taquan and Misty Fjords and then left town.
Cessnaflyer
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We have out but I'd love to get in so we don't have to get those tis not available messages all the time. How does it compare to data accuracy to the xm weather?
Roger Roger
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Not sure. Nobody around here uses XM. I mean obviously the text stuff is what it is, and we don't use the radar overlay much since the nearest radar site is 80+ NM away with mountains blocking line of site so radar is essentially useless to us most of there time.
Cessnaflyer
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Alaska is a difficult place to get any useful information from data being piped in.
For the xm stuff it is usually 15 minutes delayed and we can get better RADAR through our iPad. It's nice to have a bigger picture than what the on-board RADAR can do.
ppragman
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While XM is basically worthless everywhere in the state, radar overlay is pretty useful "out west." Having used the XM system down in 'Murca before - I'd say that the XM is a bit better than ADS-B in terms of it's cockpit presentation - that is to say, Garmin spits out clean and pretty data compared to the Chelton boxes - but...I had rough luck with the weather from XM. Last time I flew XM was around 4 and a half years ago - so presumably the system has improved in quality, but it seemed like anything I ever got from XM in the textual weather format was hours old, whereas ADS-B was updated pretty rapidly.
Roger Roger
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What's the budget and desired functionality?
If you already have a WAAS GPS receiver and a compatible transponder installed, then it's as easy as a software upgrade and a twisted pair wire in some cases, if you just want to meet the bare minimum for out compliance. You probably already know this but just so we're clear any portable product like the stratus doesn't do jack diddly for meeting the 2020 rule, all it does is give you access to traffic and weather (maybe, as long as there is an out-equipped aircraft in the area to interrogate the ground station and get it broadcasting)
If you have nothing, or just an older transponder, then you're going to come out ahead using something like the freeflight ranger (what we are running in that picture) or garmin's equivalent product. The bonus with those products is that you'll get the ability to get weather that you won't get with an ADSB transponder. Which reminds me, how familiar are you with the 1090 vs 978 differences and where and when each is required? Because that plays into the situation too.