ADS-B Compliant for $1,000?
 

http://www.uavionix.com/products/echo-uat/

Claims to interface with AFS, Dynon, GRT, and MGL. Does anyone have experience with these units? Certainly looks interesting.
Terry, CFI
RV9A N323TP

Here's a recent thread:

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...light=uavionix

Looks promising, hopefully more players will be releasing ADSB-out solutions.

I was impressed at what Levil was showing off at SunNFun with their Beacon.

They are working on getting it certified/approved, but will should meet the ADSB mandate and only requires power and GPS antenna hookup so installation should be pretty easy.

I thought I heard it was going to be between $1000 and $1500 or so. If they are successful I'm sure others will be replicating this idea.

It still requires an external ADS-B compliant GPS position source, which can easily be the most expensive piece of equipment.

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Not true anymore. There is the Garmin GPS 20A (though you need the antenna which can be bought on Ebay for $100-200). Uavioni has the SkyFyX All IN One Antenna (or separate receiver and antenna) no prices yet, but I would expect it may be well below $1k. Dynon has the 2020 GPS Receiver/Antenna for around $500. And GRT has the Safe-Fly 2020 ADS-B Compliant GPS Module also for around $500 (which is the Uavioni system I believe).

SkyFyx is $499, or $399 if you buy it bundled with the EchoUAT. I was just looking at that this morning. The Garmin only seems to make sense if you have a G3X, it's pretty spendy.

I'd buy the UAvionix, but I want to wait and see what the Levil Blade sells for when they start selling it.

I just purchased a Stratus ESG transponder that includes a compliant GPS....will be ~$1650 after the FAA rebate.

And those are ADS-B compliant GPS sources when connected to the individual EFIS so keep adding those costs. FWIW, I was most impressed with the iLevil "all in one" unit at SunNFun.

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what impressed me was the low weight, 95 grams. did I read that correctly?

I'm also holding out for the Levil Beacon with an estimated price of $1300.