KSN-770 Can King make a comeback?

[Marauder]

Now, if only Aspen would truly delv into open architecture...wanna display traffic on their box...no problem give them some $$$ for an unlock. Want to have the freeflight version of their ADS-B box displayed on the aspen? (freeflight makes theirs, I understand) no problem give them a couple thousand. Yes, it works as long as a pound of flesh is included, above and beyond the Aspen's cost.

Mike -- that is exactly how it is working with the FreeFlight/Aspen versions of the ADS-B solutions. If you want to use a FreeFlight box on the Aspen, you can. You need to pay $2k for the unlock code.

Since the Aspen version doesn't do anything special over the FreeFlight version, personally it wouldn't make sense to do it.

Now if the GDL-88 were structured that way, I may have to think about it...

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[Marauder]

If BK really wants to sell these, they are going to have to sell it at a price point you can't refuse. Like less than a used garmin 530W. Or they need to add functionality that no one else has. Like say intigrating an ADS-B transponder, audio panel, storm scope, and/or radar without any external boxes.

I think the latter is the Avidyne approach. There is stuff built into the 540 that isn't on the GTN series. But the gorilla has a pretty strong hold on the market and I don't know how well the value add is working for the Avidyne offering.

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[flyntgr1]

At some point i'm going to have to add ADS-B. I don't have a WAAS source at the moment as i have a KLN-90B and narco nav/com hooked to a KCS-55 HSI. If King made an all in one unit with an integrated ADS-B transponder, i could replace the 90B, the narco, and the KT76. It would fit very nicely in that spot in the panel.