On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:22:52 +0000, Ron Lee wrote:

Separate from this, the GA owner can choose whether or not to spend the
extra dollars to gain direct benefit from this network.

Do look into it and determine if the high cost is worth it to you. It
is not to me

We did a survey in our club a while back regarding how the members (each
of whom is an owner, BTW) would like to see money spent on upgrades.
That is, is WX more or less important than traffic, etc.

WX was first (which shouldn't be a surprise). Traffic was #2. This was
a surprise to me given the raw numbers (ie. found in the Nall report).
But we do fly in a congested area, and one of our home airports has a
nontrivial history of nearby MACs.

We didn't weight the survey questions by price; that's probably our next
step. Tossing the price of ADS-B-IN into the mix may very well change
the ordering. But, just from idle chatter, I see that traffic really is
a big concern for us.

On the other hand, I believe that Zaon (?) has said that they'd be
releasing a portable ADS-B-IN based unit at some point. So the cost may
be far lower than what we're seeing today.

- Andrew