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ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports

8/10/2020 9:39 PM

Mark Ackerman

Joined: 6/2/2014

Posts: 369

Re: ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports

Hmmm, I'll have to try this again on our next flight - but I'm pretty sure we've been able to "see" adsb traffic much farther away than 15 miles - and here's why it should be available to iFly users - it's a nice feature to be able to look ahead at an airport that where we're planning on landing - and being able to see which way other aircraft is landing is a good thing.

Doesn't mean the landing direction won't change before we get there, but for planning an approach the info is important to us.

8/11/2020 5:57 AM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports Modified By Cobra on 8/11/2020 5:58:44 AM

Mark Ackerman wrote:

Hmmm, I'll have to try this again on our next flight - but I'm pretty sure we've been able to "see" adsb traffic much farther away than 15 miles

Yes, as I mentioned before, while the data broadcast from FAA towers only delivers traffic targets within your "hockey puck", which is limited to 15 mile radius, direct air-to-air transmissions between aircraft can *possibly* be farther than that. But reception of air-to-air signals is highly variable, because it depends on many factors as described above. Thus, "your mileage may vary."

8/11/2020 5:23 PM

Brolin McKay

Joined: 10/6/2019

Posts: 772

Re: ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports

I've brought this up in a features meeting. FWIW this is a great idea, but it would need to be paired with a connected device, ie a phone or cellular tablet to have streaming data in from an outside source. Not something you can do with a stratux, or in fact while you're connected to stratux. Maybe if you have a twin device setup.

8/11/2020 9:23 PM

Don Maxwell

Joined: 1/13/2015

Posts: 1131

Re: ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports

Thanks, Brolin. It was a wish borne of frustration with ADS-B, not iFly. And the dream of absolute-zero privacy--NO! what am I saying?! I mean, wouldn't it be swell if we could know where everyone is all the time. Actually, I just love Apple's "Where's My" app that lets my wife know where I am all the time and when I'll be where I said I'd be. And vice versa, of course. Well, okay, mixed feelings about alla that privacy stuff.

8/19/2020 12:24 PM

Brolin McKay

Joined: 10/6/2019

Posts: 772

Re: ADS-B Traffic for Distant Airports

I get it... it's a wonder that Apple can find my iPhone across town but I can't find it across my room!

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