Even though I passed the FAA test, I'm still having issues with disappearing traffic (327+iPad+FlyQ). I'm still working with Ryan from Uavionix and I want to run out the hangar after work today and send him a screen shot of my setup.
I forgot how to enter the "secret" advanced menu. Does anybody remember how to do that?
Hi Kelly, the secret handshake is tap the Echo logo at the top of the screen with two fingers once you've connected to the Ping wifi and started the app.
I've got an Echo with GRT's SafeFly 2020 GPS, have most current Echo software and still get disappearing traffic both on my GRT display and my iPad. Curiously the GRT display will also typically show more ADS-B ground stations than my iPad. Please report back anything you learn from Ryan!
... So, I don't get altitude alerts...the GDL90 filter project of mine now adds traffic alerting to the data stream...
Anybody have dealing with uAvionix lately? I read that Shane is no longer with the company. I spoke with Shane on the Friday before SNF via phone. We spoke for ~ 45 minutes and all seemed well.
I was getting ready to place my order this week for echoUAT+SkyFYX-EXT bundle for my RV-12 and now I?m on the fence. Remember the Navworx fiasco? I?m going to hang loose for a while?
Shane was working the uAvionix exhibit at Sun 'n Fun and I was in email contact with him regarding a uAvionix matter as late as 4/18.
I assume you meant to say you don't get traffic alerts?
I know the 4500 and prior AFS EFIS' don't provide any traffic alert functionality.
Tell us more about your GDL90 filter project that adds traffic alerting. Is this part of the GDL90 protocol where you are injecting alerts into the existing data stream? Or are you handling with a discrete alarm or a discrete audio ouput?? I would be very interested in that.
My GTX-330 Mode S TXPDR provides audible traffic alerts which are indispensable IMHO. I am loathe to transition to a system (ADSB) that does not provide similar alerting functionality. If your eyes aren't glued to the screen, you miss a lot of conflicting traffic without an (audible) traffic alerting functionality!!!
Noah,
Are you going to make the GDL90 Filter Project available to others that have the uAvionics system replacement for the NavWorx 600EXP units? I'd definately be interested....
On the boards, I'm not 100% sure yet as to what I'll do going forward. Certainly from a hardware perspective I'm likely interested in allowing people to build their own. On the software side, I'll have to discuss it with my buddy who's really the brains behind the software (and he laid out the hardware too).
I guess I'd say stay tuned for a bit and lets see. I want to finish getting the collision alerting working just right in a way that guarantees that it generates alerts in all situations that traffic is a factor but doesn't alert for things that are not. Once that is all tuned in, I'll see where we're at and maybe it'll be all open sourced for people to build and use. It was a considerable amount of work...really I'm sure in the couple hundreds of man hours, so I don't want to make any promises without approval from my very hard working pal.
It really does improve the box though, and does it better than anything else I can think of, including the active harness they made at uAvionix. The issue is that without an entire post-processor, you are left with a box that actually CAN integrate to your transponder and encoder, but with the limitation that the output GDL90 would have to be the same baud rate as the input GPS that you're using...and that would not work for me as my EFIS is 38,400 baud and the transponder/encoder systems run 9600. So to date, even though they have tried to come up with a harness that fixes some of these issues, it falls short of being something that would work for me. And when you factor in the lack of traffic alerting, it falls short enough that I would toss the system altogether without fixing that.
Sounds good Fred. Right now, my guess is that maybe a bit over a month from now I'll have enough time (since I have a trip coming up) where I can give some extended testing, that we'll decide what to do. The coding was a lot of work, and of course I wouldn't want anyone to take on any liability for any of it since it's all D-I-Y and coded by a trained monkey (not an insult....just want people to know that this wasn't written by a big name-brand certified company programmer). The collision alert programming is really the biggest part that I need to test out, at this point. The filtering/sorting works beautifully, as does the baro/squawk integration. At any rate, if this gets released I'd expect that the user would take their own responsibility for everything and test the system too, to ensure that it is doing what they expect it to be doing. But some parts of it have been flown for quite a few hours now and work really nicely, so I'm guessing that this will be something you can get your hands on eventually. Installation isn't too hard to add to an existing Echo UAT either. For people who go that route, I'd say make sure to buy some pins for those Echo molex connectors because you'll probably want to use most of the 6 pins.
More to come...
In my last 6 flights according to the test reports I have spent a total of 3 seconds in ADS-B airspace, probably drug a wing through Albuquerque Class C, and I have been getting letters and emails from the FAA asking how and when I will remedy this issue.
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