Avidyne TAS600

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic
alerting system?

Regards
Tarif Halabi
C-GQGD

We think it's the Ryan with different stripes. Bill Hale

wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic
alerting system?

Regards
Tarif Halabi
C-GQGD

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We think it's the Ryan with different stripes. Bill Hale


Considering Avidyne bought Ryan, that's a good assessment.


wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic
alerting system?

Regards
Tarif Halabi
C-GQGD

writes:

Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic
alerting system?

I have a variant of the system in my birdie (Ryan 9900BX + Avidyne
EX500, now jointly known as the Avidyne TAS620). Overall, it's a
comfortable, good system, with lots of safety/SA data (weather XM
and/or OrbComm, excellent traffic, topography mapping, radar) all
overlaid nicely. The TAS600 imposes some traffic display range limits
in exchange for a lower price, but is otherwise the same.

I have had some quibbles with Avidyne about baffling web service
policies toward people without XM weather subscription, and have had
an unprovoked out-of-warranty traffic sensor failure (1 AMU) recently.
Other than these, it's been satisfactory.

- FChE

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
writes:

Does anyone have any experience with the Avidyne TAS600 traffic
alerting system?

I have a variant of the system in my birdie (Ryan 9900BX + Avidyne
EX500, now jointly known as the Avidyne TAS620). Overall, it's a
comfortable, good system, with lots of safety/SA data (weather XM
and/or OrbComm, excellent traffic, topography mapping, radar) all
overlaid nicely. The TAS600 imposes some traffic display range limits
in exchange for a lower price, but is otherwise the same.

I have had some quibbles with Avidyne about baffling web service
policies toward people without XM weather subscription, and have had
an unprovoked out-of-warranty traffic sensor failure (1 AMU) recently.
Other than these, it's been satisfactory.

- FChE

What about false alarms. Do you get a lot of those?

"Tarif" writes:

What about false alarms. Do you get a lot of those?

I assume you mean traffic alarms. No, all the alarms I've ever
received were due to actual nearby airplanes, not due to something
weird like echoes from the aircraft itself. Exact range and altitude
plus good bearing makes it easy to spot traffic or self-separate if
necessary.

(The MFD also provides alarms about stormscope cells or radar echoes
ahead, but I don't think that's what you meant.)

- FChE