ADS-weather-traffic

I would like to get a poll of those who are moving forward to get ADS-B,weather and traffic in their panel. Avidyne has now a unit to provide this on the IFD 540. Aspen has a unit soon to do the same on the Aspen, not on the 540. Others are using a portable, Garmin 796, Ipad with antennae or such to display on the yoke. I would like those familiar with this issue to chime in on their own course of action to proceed. The only mandated action we all face is the ADS-B out . It would be great to take care of all the issues with the simplest, cost effective plan. Any thoughts?

Thanks to the Avidyne initiative; I'm already 2020 compliant.

For now I plan on staying with my stratus, iPad  and fore flight.  It gives me traffic and weather.  I need to let things settle down a few years before I jump into another upgrade. 

I'm really hoping that foreflight is the vendor that will utilize the Bluetooth interface .......

ForeFlight Stratus is currently wi-fi.

Why is connection to only 1 wifi network an issue?
Bluetooth is indeed point to point and support for multiple connections is necessary, hence the use of bluetooth for a remote kb.

But wifi is a network and any app can use it in parallel with others. Connection is at the tcp level, not ip. Just look at all your ipad apps that use the single wifi network and internet connection in parallel at home. Wifi support should allow any to any app communication (incl 540) on the same network. In fact, having multiple active wifi network support would require separate hardware for each. Tablets only support 1 wifi network connection at a given time.

If there is an issue, it would the ability or not of a given device app to support parallel tcp sessions to multiple other 'apps' at the software level over the same wifi network. But technically, this would be the way to go.



Edited by chflyer - 02 Mar 2015 at 3:19am

Agreed.

If every wifi device tries to act as a base station defining the network rather than a network client/joiner, then none of them will be able to communicate. Tablets are all set up as clients, but apparently stratus insists on being a base station. If the 540 does the same then they won't talk to each other. Worse, if they are both set up with the same network ssid, the tablets won't be able to talk to either of them and nothing will work.

How would you expect to use the ipad-540 connection over bluetooth?

Bluetooth is essentially a hardware protocol for connecting i/o devices such as headsets, keyboards, mice, etc. For example, my Lightspeed is connected to my ipad via bluetooth, as are a number of other non-aviation devices such as hifi headphones, jawbone speaker, Garmin GLO gps.

It is conceivable that certain ipad apps could use a bluetooth connection to the 540, but it would be interesting to know what application you have in mind. One could be an app for transferring waypoints en-masse from a file on the ipad. As mentioned, bluetooth is point-to-point, so each connection needs to be defined separately.

Nice.  First time I've seem someone use "Small Matter of Programming" in some time.   That's worth acceleration points all by itself.

I have a IFD540 /AXP340 for ADS-B out.  I also have a Clarity SV for ADS-B in and WingX/IPAD.

ksdoc wrote: I use the 540/340 combo with a Stratus 2 and get traffic displayed right in front of me on the iPad Mini. Love it. We (the installer) prepped my plane for the eventual addition of the MLB100 for the 540, but it would be nice if it could be displayed on my Aspen as well.

I think having the traffic and weather option to display on the Aspen or 540 or bluetooth to a iPad would be great and would give both companies a greater market share of this ADS-B mandate coming. If Aspen and Avidyne choose not to cooperate with each other, it only benefits Garmin.

ddgates wrote: That said, as was discussed by others with me before IFD delivery, it is looking like the IFD may be so versatile a unit there is hardly a reason to have an MFD.

Edited by oskrypuch - 04 Mar 2015 at 9:05am

Jim:

Edited by ddgates - 04 Mar 2015 at 9:56am

The 796 is a winner in bright sunlit cockpits. 

Edited by oskrypuch - 05 Mar 2015 at 4:54pm

I am upgrading to glass right now with G500. Already have dual 540s/ AXP340. I am pre-wiring for MLB100.

iPad Air 2 is a huge improvement over all other ipads.