On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 7:25:24 AM UTC-8, Bruce wrote:
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The new Powerflarm Fusion has wifi and blue tooth to feed ForeFlight etc. Does it feed the ADS-B weather info and notams etc to the Electronic Flight Bag systems?

Bruce

No. It has no way of doing this, FIS-B data is transmitted over UAT. PowerFLARM devices, (original ones with the "ADS-B option",--which all in the USA should have been purchased with, or the new PowerFLARM Fusion) receive ADS-B In on 1090ES In only. If they had UAT In capability we would not be having this whole announcement about ADS-R support. But just getting FIS-B is easy--you just need a separate UAT or better dual-link ADS-B receiver driving Foreflight, no need for the glider to be equipped with ADS-B to be a "client", that data is just broadcast in the blind as long as you have line of sight/range to towers (for wider area forecasts if you want that you may need line of sight to more distant towers, can be worth reading up on how FIS-B forecast data is transmitted if you plan to use this).

But the big question is did you want that Foreflight system to also display traffic data? Foreflight system driven by a dual-link ADS-B receiver will not display any FLARM only equipped traffic and won't provide FLARM style traffic alerts for any type of Traffic it can see. And without suitable ADS-B Out neither system will reliably display TIS-B traffic. What is the best choice here depends on what traffic threats are of most concern, and if the glider is ADS-B Out equipped, etc. and I sure worry that too many things displaying different data and beeping away in a cockpit is not a good idea.... or if folks do that they really understand what is going on and how to use the different systems.

PowerFLARM Fusion is a nice improvement over existing PowerFLARM units, including for use in the USA. In Europe and the rest of the world it does provide real "Fusion" between FLARM, ADS-B and different display devices but in the USA, with our overly complex ADS-B system not used anywhere else in the world the story is as usual more complicated. Here in the USA "Fusion" does not cover all of ADS-B capabilities (no UAT-In Direct, and no FIS-B) but it's included support for ADS-R and TIS-B is a good step forward.