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Stratux, Low cost ADS-B in


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I started another post on this last month, but some of my fellow cheap B's might have missed it.

 

You can have a stratus-like ADS-B in receiver for about 0.1 amu's thanks to a few talented programmers who went out of their way. I'm always appreciative of any way to make this hobby a little safer without spending a lot of cash.

 

The EAA just did a nice write-up on how you can make your own.

 

Since it's an ongoing project, there is a forum with updates and comments at https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/

 

I just used mine this weekend to avoid a few thunderstorms.

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Carl,

As long as you don't depend on it as a safety of flight item, you'll be good.

If $200 in wasted parts is OK with you, you'll be good.

There is a lot of upside, and very little downside, from what I see here.

It won't be replacing any panel mounted hardware.

If you aren't affording the full price of a portable unit, this is a good alternative.

Check the price of used portables. gsengle reported he is selling a skyradar earlier today for $100. He just mounted another touchscreen device in his IP....

It looks like a fun project to say "I'm not a technical moron anymore!" With...

Best regards,

-a-

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I know there are lot of guys who are excited about the AHRS/GPS addition.  I think they've got the GPS part working, AHRS is taking a little longer.  But I'm a little ambivalent about that because I don't use Foreflight and my Ipad is a cellular model with GPS already built in.

Dual band traffic + weather is the sweet spot for me...

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Fixed by downloading a different piece of software to load the SD card - new app worked first time. Guess the PiFiller app had a conflict with something running in the background, even on a fresh reboot.

for the record...

So for all you pros - can't get my wife's Macbook to load that pi filler app - just keeps "quitting unexpectedly" on me when I go to run it. OS x 10.7.5

any successful Mac users on here?

thanks,

Moron

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My Mooney partner just reported excellent reception using the "stock" Stratus with the latest download on a flight from KAWM to KHOT.  Don't think we will give up XM on our GNS430, but after we get some time behind ADS-B weather on the iPad we may reconsider.  Any idea if there will eventually be a way to add GPS to the Stratux package, or does that already exist?

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