WiFi & Bluetooth

Yes, please, with the pricing of the unlock.

The webinar is at 1700 Eastern.

From their webinar.

Edited by oskrypuch - 24 Jul 2014 at 5:11pm

I went on vacation as of earlier today so I'm not familiar with what was announced after I left but the 5:09pm Orest post is correct. 

I can add that there were two musings by the presenter during the webinar about connectivity, although without any specific commitment ...

Edited by oskrypuch - 24 Jul 2014 at 9:05pm

Since Stratus and Foreflight have made the decision to only play with each other, tying a Stratus to your IFD is unlikely.  However, there are plenty of other portable ADSB receivers out there that could play if Avidyne chooses to support them (and the FAA gets okay with the mix of certified + uncertified devices).

Yes, that was mentioned as one of the big concerns, and that concern is shared by the FAA.

Maybe not.  But the chartered King Air might have someone onboard with different motivations.

Handling an inadvertent denial of service attack (or for that matter a deliberate attack) is simple.  If the IFD decides it is not happy it can turn off WiFi.  Since all devices connected via WiFi are for situational awareness only this would be a reasonable thing to do to protect the integrity of the certified navigation unit.

It isn't likely that sending a video to the GPS would get far enough to trigger this anyways as it would not be listening on the correct port and even if it were it would not accept the upload request.

Hopefully some software vendors will decide it is in their best interest to integrate with the IFDs.  Garmin's recent tying Pilot to their panel mount equipment means that every GTN or GNS user is being given an incentive to switch from Foreflight or WingX to Pilot.

I wonder if the IFD could offer a web server?  That would work with just about any tablet and at a minimum could provide a big secondary screen.  Input that affects flight could be done only through the IFD if that makes the FAA happy.  If the tablet displays plates or maps Jepp might have something to say about it, though.

Aspen has managed to get it certified with their CG100 and Garmin has with their Flight Stream 210.  The problems are solvable and I'm confident that Avidyne will also solve them.

The questions are when, what capabilities will they expose, and who will provide the clients?

At webinar we were told to imaging the capabilities.  That's a really dangerous thing to tell us.

It would be really nice if Avidyne supported Connected Panel on the IFD without requiring Aspen hardware.  That would provide connectivity from most of the major tablet programs, particularly Foreflight and WingX.

However Connected Panel doesn't appear to be an open protocol suite.  The website says that that there are no license or royalty fees associated with the API but it doesn't say someone can sell a CG100 equivalent.

I did notice that Aspen's Connected Pilot application is licensed only for use with Aspen's hardware.

It would be nice if there were an open protocol controlled by a consortium.  I don't know if Aspen plans to let Connected Panel become that.

The KSN 770 is certified.  I don't know if it can use Connected Panel without Aspen's MFD and converter.

I am extremely glad to hear that Avidyne has included the WiFi/Bluetooth in the IFD.  I am a long ways from affording an Aspen PFD, much less a MFD.
However, in this thread I've only heard the name Foreflight mentioned.  I hope that Avidyne is talking with other app developers.  I fly with WingX.  I hope that they're included in WiFi/Bluetooth functionality.  I've also sent an email to WingX asking if they are aware of this recent announcement and whether or not are able to upload to panel mount equipment.