On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:50:02 PM UTC-8, Mike Schumann wrote:

Hey Mike - if I'm misinterpreting it then so is AOPA (not that it's impossible). Take a look here, starting at 4:55.

http://www.aopa.org/AOPA-Live?watch=...88197D11A94%7D

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I believe that you are totally misinterpreting the information in the AOPA link you provided. While AOPA has been lobbying for years for the FAA to transmit all TIS-B data so that aircraft without ADS-B OUT will have access to this data, this is NOT what the FAA is doing. Instead, the FAA is actually clamping down and will no longer transmit TIS-B data to aircraft that are equipped with ADS-B OUT equipment that use GPS position sources that do not meet minimal performance standards.

If you want to reliably receive TIS-B data from an ADS-B ground station, your aircraft MUST be ADS-B OUT equipped.

Note: PowerFLARM does not support TIS-B and there has been no information provided by anyone that they are even thinking about adding this functionality to their product. That's a huge shortcoming in the product that is certainly not helping their sales efforts.