XMRadio Satellite Weather Has Arrived

"Peter R." wrote:
Sadly, I have had a few WSI sales people tell me that their weather
product will probably never interface with the B/K MFD, as B/K is not
releasing their MFD specs to WSI. These folks speculated that the
reason for this is that B/K is purposely reducing the number of uplinked
weather solutions on their MFD to one; their own package.

When it's your ball and your field, you are allowed to make up your own
rules.

Might be sad for aircraft owners, but BK would be foolish to do otherwise.
BK is investing in ground uplink stations all over the US - why should they
help owners go to the competition?
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

BK is investing in ground uplink stations all over the US.

Sounds like a bad decision to me. The satellite services are going to
kill them; unless they can keep third parties from cracking their MFD
interface. BK is on the Apple Computer road (for GA anyway).

"Doug Carter" wrote in message ...
BK is investing in ground uplink stations all over the US.

Sounds like a bad decision to me. The satellite services are going to
kill them; unless they can keep third parties from cracking their MFD
interface. BK is on the Apple Computer road (for GA anyway).

Yes, I agree.

BK keeps making bad decisions - consider their stubborn refusal to develop
an all-in-one GPS/NAV/COM, which the market has proven to be a great idea.
In light of Garmin's buying UPSAT, the future for light GA avionics looks
grim right now.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Might be sad for aircraft owners, but BK would be foolish to do otherwise.
BK is investing in ground uplink stations all over the US - why should
they
help owners go to the competition?

They should help owners go to the competition in order to sell MFDs.

This is exactly analogous to the situation years ago when personal computers
were evolving and open platform systems prospered due to 3rd party software
and hardware, while proprietary computer systems eventually became extinct.

Or to put it another way, BK is on a path to become the avionics equivalent
of Macintosh computers.

The whole idea of investing in an MFD should be to have confidence that
future avionics devices will interface with it. If BK treats its MFD as
proprietary and useful only with other BK products, then they have given
aircraft owners a major reason to be fearful of buying their MFD and
becoming locked into only BK produ]\

--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com