Google working on cheap ADS-B

http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-pla...956113/?no-ist

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

5Z

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

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-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

"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.

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.