Google working on cheap ADS-B

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http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/googles-future-air-force-180956113/?no-ist

Maybe light at the end of the tunnel...?

5Z

[Craig Funston]

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:52:43 AM UTC-7, wrote:
> http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/googles-future-air-force-180956113/?no-ist
>
> Maybe light at the end of the tunnel...?
>
> 5Z

Hope that light isn't a train ;-)

Interesting quote from Ric Peri of the Aircraft Electronics Association

"If every aircraft with an N registry...every aircraft...could use the same exact ADS-B solution, the entire market is less than one-fifth of Apple's first day sales of the iPad,"

We'll have to leverage other higher volume technology sources if we're going to get the cost down.

Craig

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On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 11:35:00 AM UTC-7, Craig Funston wrote:
> On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:52:43 AM UTC-7, wrote:
> > http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/googles-future-air-force-180956113/?no-ist
> >
> > Maybe light at the end of the tunnel...?
> >
> > 5Z
>
> Hope that light isn't a train ;-)
>
> Interesting quote from Ric Peri of the Aircraft Electronics Association
>
> "If every aircraft with an N registry...every aircraft...could use the same exact ADS-B solution, the entire market is less than one-fifth of Apple's first day sales of the iPad,"
>
> We'll have to leverage other higher volume technology sources if we're going to get the cost down.
>
> Craig

"We'll have to leverage other higher volume technology sources if we're going to get the cost down"

I think that was the point of referencing the article, drones are exactly that higher volume technology.

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Well, they finally got Android working well enough that with my new phone I have yet to feel the desire to smash it to atoms and Google Groups/Drive is working at about 75% reliability as a tool used to organize club activities so maybe there's a chance they'll succeed at this.

On the other hand I'm not too sure that delivery drones in a nation as full of hackers and well-armed people as the US is will work out as well as they hope.

Personally I would be happy if (assuming it's workable) they would let aircraft operating outside of positive control airspace use FLARM as a GPS source for a separate 1090ES-out ADS-B transmitter.