Hi Ken,
No conflict with any of the previous advice - (I’m certainly not going to argue with Gerry’s AK47
). Both systems can supply ‘ownship’ GPS position data to your Nav Display (though not at the same time as your tablet/phone can only connect to a single WiFi access point at a time).
PAW
will provide the maximum received traffic info to your Nav Display, with ADSB, P3i, and Bearingless Mode C and Mode S, + Positional FLARM and MLAT Mode S uplinks and METARs if you are within range of one or more of our ATOM-GRID Ground Stations.
SE2 will only provide traffic data for ADSB, plus FLARM if you pay the additional subscription to your Nav System provider.
Many users running dual systems
do just run their SkyEcho as a ‘blind transmitter’ in parallel with PAW, but if you want to take advantage of SE2’s Direct FLARM reception, while maintaining the superior traffic coverage from your PilotAware, the best advice is to run your main display from PilotAware with a second copy of SD on a second tablet (or perhaps more practically a smartphone*) linked to your SkyEcho. One ‘SD’ or ‘SD + FLARM’ subscription allows use of SD on up to 2 mobile devices simultaneously, with live update, though (as reminded by Graham, below), there is nothing to prevent an ‘extra’ device(s) loaded with SD also being used at the same time, though if the ‘extra’ device(s) is/are ‘logged in’ to download data - such as route, notam, weather, airfield plates, etc., the older of the other devices previously logged in will be automatically logged out - and can’t be logged back in to SD without an active internet connection, so be careful. (Thank you Graham for the reminder).
*This doesn’t need to be a ‘live’ smartphone - a ‘redundant’ phone (without sim) will do fine as long as it’s still working and can access WiFi.
Best Regards
Peter
