On 7/31/2015 6:09 PM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 12:59:04 PM UTC-7, Bob Pasker wrote:
has anyone try to use this in their glider?

http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/ipa...for-ipad.html/

--bob

What are you expecting it would do for you?

It won't "see" any Flarm equipped gliders/tow planes.
It won't reliably "see" any transponder equipped aircraft
(unless *your* glider has ADS-B Out *and* you are in
ADS-B ground station TIS-B coverage... which requires you
be within ATC SSR coverage)

It will "see" 1090ES and UAT Out equipped aircraft...
which effectively means no gliders and few GA aircraft today.

... if you have a compatible display and you'll likely get a
boat load of annoying traffic threat warnings in typical
glider-glider scenarios, if other gliders are seen at all.



What Darryl said, plus buying Stratus locks you (and your wallet) into
an unholy 3-way Foreflight-Apple-Stratus alliance. Unless there has
been a recent change, Stratus only supports the Foreflight EFB.
Foreflight only works on Apple and Stratus hardware. See the problem?

I have flown with Foreflight and concede that it's excellent. But
Foreflight also has lots of excellent EFB competition barking at its
heals! Going forward, with Foreflight's strategy of "locking in" their
customers with hardware, they will have less incentive than the others
to compete on the basis of price, features, customer service and
innovation.

There are several ads-b receivers out there with comparable features to
the Stratus that cost less while giving you the option to choose between
multiple EFB apps and hardware platforms.

Vaughn