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Old July 31st 15, 07:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Craig Funston
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Default Google working on cheap ADS-B

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:52:43 AM UTC-7, wrote:
http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-pla...956113/?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