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ForeFlight (2017 Oshkosh Announcement) - $199 ADSB receiver
I saw this on Kitplanes (and then followed the various links). It looks like ForeFlight worked with uAvionix to offer budget ADSB received.
https://flywithscout.com/index.html It's tiny.  |
This does generate a dilemma for me. I like having my iPa/foreflight hooked up to my Dynon so I can transfer flight plans via Wifi.
On the other hand I would like weather/traffic on my iPad too (I do have ADS-B in for the Dynon but that doesn't seem to be shown on foreflight... ). From what I understand this little device uses WiFi to connect to the iPad too. As both the Dynon and this device want to be the WiFi base station I assume you have to choose one or the other. Either transfer your flight plans via wifi to the Dynon or receive weather/traffic from that device but not both at the same time. Am I wrong? Any suggestion how to handle that? Oliver p.s. I guess easiest would be if Dynon would send the weather/traffic to foreflight ... . |
I'm not affiliated with any of the vendors involved. I read the website and watched the video.
It says it can connect with up to four devices. That may or may not include Dynon devices. A good question for Foreflight or Dynon to answer. |
Dynon and ADSB on iPad
Good morning folks. Update on Dynon and the iPad apps for displaying ADSB weather and traffic on the iPad.
There is at least 2 apps and maybe 3 that will display ADSB weather and traffic on their iPad using the wifi from the Dynon SkyView. First, FlyQ and FltPlan Go are both advertised to receive weather and traffic from SkyView, but when Dynon released the new ADSB-472, I can confirm that weather is displayed on the iPad, but there seems to be a problem with the wifi data stream out for traffic. I have FlyQ, FltPlan Go and ForeFlight and can attest that all three of these apps at this time will display ADSB weather from the Dynon SkyView wifi using the ADSB-472. I sit in front of my hanger, get the local ADSB tower and get weather on both my SkyView and iPad using the above 3 apps. I am seeing traffic on my SkyView screen, but not on any of the 3 apps, and they should per the folks at Seattle Avionics and Dynon. It does take a little bit longer for it to display on the iPad, but it will show up, so wait a min or two longer. I know that Dynon is now aware of this and is working on a fix to correct it, but with OSH starting, it might take a little while to get the fix and get it out to us, so be patent. |
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Will try again when I am at the airport again. Oliver |
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It's my understanding that this device was called the Ping Buddy and would communicate via Wifi to EFIS systems (dynon, AFS, etc.). They got involved with Foreflight, made some updates, renamed it the Scout, and now it will only work with the Foreflight app.
Which is too bad. I would buy one right now if it worked directly with my AFS EFIS. Please correct me if I'm wrong. |
Pingbuddy now Scout
My question: will/does the Scout have better signal capture than the Pingbuddy? As I posted on another thread, in contrast to a side-by-side comparison with the Stratus, the ping buddy was slow to capture the ADSB ground stations and was equally slow to process and display the data on my iPad with Foreflight. Just hoping the Scout has more robust performance before I drop $200.
Jim Diehl 7A |
The Scout has proprietary encrypted data stream which will only communicate to the Foreflight app. I assume that Foreflight bought the market from uAvionix for what was advertised earlier as the Ping Buddy II and had it modified just for their app. Really hate that an excellent low cost product like that has now been removed from the larger market and usable only on the FF i Pad app only. Oh well, maybe someone will overcome that!
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Long live Stratux.
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