PowerFlarm offers new Version, PowerFlarm Fusion Includes Many newstandard Features!

On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 6:10:28 PM UTC-8, Andrzej Kobus wrote:
On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 12:02:53 PM UTC-5, Doug Levy wrote:
On Friday, November 6, 2020 at 2:55:37 PM UTC-8, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
PowerFlarm officially releasing the new PowerFLARM Fusion. It replaces PowerFLARM Core and comes loaded with features:

• Connect smartphones and tablets via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
• FLARM Hub web app for easy upgrades, configuration, and maintenance
• GDL 90 protocol for streaming traffic data to EFBs like ForeFlight and SkyDemon
• Worldwide interoperability (only one version)
• Previously optional features are now included: Radio Diversity (RFB), 1090 Receiver (ADS-B, Mode-S), IGC, ENL, and Audio. No need to purchase licenses.
• Updated antenna connectors — all screw-on
• Hassle-free upgrade from PowerFLARM Core


For complete details see:

http://www.craggyaero.com/fusion.htm

Standard Base Price $1795, Introductory Price $1526 until Jan 31, 2021

Richard
www.craggyaero.com
Do they have any plans to include 978? I have a dual-band ADS-B receiver and Flarm. There is a large percentage of aircraft on 978 that I'm not seeing on Flarm.
Doug, what is a large percentage in your opinion? Total number of positions in the last 30 days on 1090 Mhz equals 40,278,138,192 and on UAT 6,000,664. Let's divide the first number by 100 to assume that most of those positions are at higher altitude and only 1% at altitude relevant to us. So it is 6,000,664/402,781,381 * 100 = 1.489%
As you see you are not missing much, unless you are in a special place near a large flight school that decided to install UATs. I don't see many UAT aircraft in the North East, but I agree it would be nice to have support for UAT.

I'm flying a motor glider out of an airport that has about 200 operations per day. At first, I had a transponder with 1090 ADS-B out ( a Trig setup). I also had a Flarm for seeing traffic. I watched many flights take off and did not see all of them on my Flarm display. I talked to the other pilots in the hangars nearby. Most had Garmin transponder with Garmin ADS-B out. They are all using 978 out. They have not heard of Flarm and of course, their ADS-B in equipment doesn't see Flarm.
ADS-B on 978 is only used in the USA. I would hope that Flarm would have included it with the latest improvements for everyone's safety. I don't believe it is a small number of aircraft, but I couldn't find any numbers to know how many. Garmin is very popular and there are reasons they choose 978.. If you do your research you will see the advantages.
I have a dual-band ADS-B receiver. These devices output the trafic information by WiFi. I have an Ipad running Foreflight software that I can highly recommend. This can be done with an I-phone too. I know panel space can be small. I hope that some of the modern flight computers add software that can recieve the information from these ADS-b dual band receivers.