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General Discussion / Re: New CAA low power portable ADS-B device spec
« on: March 25, 2016, 01:04:01 pm »Quote
Talk of "thwarting" PAW is just plain silly. If PilotAware so chose they could set about adding 1090MHz ADS-B Out capability into PAW by taking advantage of the simpler regulations the CAA are proposing. Personally, I think it would be great if PilotAware were to do this and I would encourage them to do so. As a PAW user you would be safer if PAW output 1090MHz ADS-B Out as it would be helping to make you seeable by more aircraft that you are sharing airspace with.
Great idea Steve but we still seem to have the restriction that 2 devices cannot emit 1090Mhz from the same aircraft meaning PAW's ADS-B out would have to be switched off in a transponder equipped aircraft. Same issue with LPAT. No one want's pilots to turn off their transponders.
I had hoped the trials would have been testing this in the air to see if it actually mattered.
Allowing two devices (same hex code) would accelerate adoption not least amongst Garmin transponder owners. My guess is greater that 50% of the aircraft flying have Garmin transponders that will cost £1200 to upgrade or in the case of the GTX328 never be upgradable. That could be a huge jump in take up.