On Mar 16, 4:51*pm, Mike Schumann
wrote:
The FAA in coordination with the SSA is doing a major test of low cost
ADS-B transceivers this summer in the Washington DC area. *As part of
this effort, MIT is doing a survey of pilots' perception of the value of
ADS-B technology in their environments.

Please take 10 minutes and provide your input:

http://agena.mit.edu/ADSBsurvey

We are finally making some serious progress within the FAA to get them
to take a hard look at commercializing the low cost ADS-B technology
that has been developed by MITRE. *If this effort is successful, we
should see fully functional ADS-B equipment available in the US at FLARM
price points (~$1K). *Please make your voices heard in support of this
effort.

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Mike Schumann

Some very cool ideas for use of ADS-B in soaring.

I would like to see support for common hardware interfaces and public
APIs so that third-party developers could easily integrate ADS-B
output into existing software and/or make it easy to integrate the
display software into a few common platforms (Windows Mobile PDA/PNA,
iPhone, etc). No one wants to carry around another display unit and
switching between a flight computer app and a situational awareness
app is awkward given how frequently a pilot would need to refer to
both.

Hopefully the commercial unit would be more compact and/or allow the
antennas to be mounted remote from the unit. The prototype is pretty
bulky and appears to have the ADS-B antenna built in.

I'd buy one, especially if I didn't have to buy a transponder too.

Of course I may be retired from the sport by the time all that
infrastructure gets deployed.

9B