[ML-General] Do we have any pilots?

[david]

Stratux now has a 978 component as well.  I have both running at this 
very moment at my home, running off a single RPi 2.
Watching mine through it's web interface as well as overlaid on 
sectionals on a tablet running iFlyGPS.  *Great* traffic and weather 
awareness (when I can get the weather data - which is not often at home 
as there are no ads-b towers nearby.

David M.




On 10/26/2015 03:31 PM, Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
> On 2015-10-26 13:29, david wrote:
>> Are there any pilots in the group?
>>
>> Or maybe anyone that likes to monitor airplanes going around,
>> especially with the ADS-B?
>>
>> I've run across this really fun thing called 'stratux' that is (almost
>> complete) ADS-B in and for less than $130.  Computer of choice for it
>> at the moment is the Raspberry Pi 2.
>>
>> David M.
>
> As a professional and military pilot, I have operated in some scary 
> conditions and used ADS-B as a primary source of tracking where there 
> is no radar coverage.
>
> I have successfully used a Raspberry Pi and a cheap RTL-chip based 
> dongle to receive and serve position, speed, altitude and flight 
> number information on aircraft in a large, 200 Nautical mile area.  
> The Pi runs on a wi-fi network and acts as a server for any web 
> browser equipped device and displays a map with all the aircraft.
>
> The Pi software is 1090dump, and there are many other applications for 
> receiving and displaying ADS-B data.  For a total investment of $40.00 
> (including the Raspberry Pi), I think that is a good project for 
> pilots and non-pilots who are curious about hos the system works...
>
> The commercial products are basically the same components in a sexy 
> box, with a sexy price.
>
> </.02>
>
> Kevin
> K4IVE
>
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