fredag 10. april 2015

ADS-B


ADS-B is big in the news at the Aircraft Electronics Association show in Dallas
this month.  In this product tour, AVweb reviews ADS-B units from three
companies: Appareo, Avidyne, and Sandia Aerospace.








With new ADS-B products emerging about every other month,
 a surprise entrant into the dependent surveillance market may
be search giant Google. According to a report in FlightGlobal,
 at an ICAO meeting last month, Google exec Dave Vos, who
heads the company’s Project Wing internet effort, said the
company is considering flooding the market with inexpensive
ADS-B equipment in order to pave the path for the fleet of UAS
delivery drones it envisions for the not-that-long-term future.
FlightGlobal quoted Vos as saying, “We think that – and we are
going to do this – we will head-down the trajectory of putting
into the marketplace really, really low-cost ADS-B solutions,”
Vos told the ICAO audience. What’s low-cost? “We have to
answer the question: What does the market find palatable in
order to really transform? And that’s where we’re going,” Vos
replied.
Currently, as revealed at the Aircraft Electronics Association
convention in Dallas this week, the lowest cost ADS-B
hardware is UAT Out-only options retailing for about $1995.
Adding installation to that brings the total to about $4000 and
the cheapest conceivable solution—slide-in 1090ES
transponders—may still cost more than $3000. While ADS-B
installation activity is picking up, shops report buyers are
reluctant to make the purchase, evidently because they don’t
see much value in doing so.
Vos told the ICAO audience that Google sees the lack of wide
ADS-B equipage as hindrance to its plan for a fleet of delivery
UAS, most of which will operate at 500 feet or below. Google is
also partnering with Rockwell Collins to develop anti-collision
technology, but it’s not known if this is optically based or
electronically based, or both. At the recent Consumer
Electronics
Show in Las Vegas, Intel and a German company called
Ascending Technologies demonstrated an optically based sense-
and-avoid system using multiple drones.

Friday, April 10, 2015

FreeFlight Systems Introduces Upgraded ADS-B App

Juliet Van Wagenen
The components to the combined ADS-B Out solution
ADS-B View 2.0 weather and traffic display. Photo: Freelight








 [Avionics Today 04-10-2015] FreeFlight Systems has released a new version of its iPad app to provide graphical weather, traffic and text data to the pilot and crew. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) View 2.0 app receives weather and traffic information through the company’s Rangr ADS-B system, which is transmitted to the tablet via Wi-Fi and overlayed on the ADS-B view map.
 
The new app offers the ability for user selection of an ownship position source, a new graphics engine and additional connectivity support. The graphical weather can be placed into a looping mode so that weather changes can be viewed over time. The map can be configured to show runways, roads, lakes and state and county lines. 

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