ADS-B Out finally working

I’d mentioned a week or so ago that I’d gotten our GTX330ES software updated to try and resolve our ABS-B issues resolved, and happily I can report that it is now working. You can check by requesting a report (by N number) to 9-AWA-AFS-300-ADSB-AvionicsCheck[at]faa.gov and they’ll send you a handy report like the ones attached. […]

SkyRadar Update

We have good ADS-B coverage locally these days, and I’m regularly pulling up the winds reported at my destinations via the GRT’s DETAILS page, and getting lots of traffic (part of that is because I have the GTX330ES doing the “activation” of nearby transponders), but I’m also seeing myself. Turns out I need to tell […]

ADS-B Traffic

A funny thing happened on the way back from Columbus this weekend. Actually, it’s the sort of thing that’s only funny in retrospect, but anyway. We have onboard traffic, supplied by the FAA’s ADS-B program, and it’s pretty awesome. You get these little markers showing all of the airplanes around you, with the direction of […]

Installing the SkyRadar-D ADS-B

One of our purchases this year was the Radenna SkyRadar-D, for dual band. We already had the Garmin GTX330ES, the ES giving us ADS-B out capability and TIS in, but we had been using a WxWorx reciever for our weather information into the GRT EFIS. That worked really well, and actually has a bit better radar resolution (at least […]