johnm wrote:
The only thing that we've established thus far is that ADS-B professionally installed kit does a good job of transmission, but finding a equally good airborne receiver is tricky
Flarm can do an excellent job of both Tx and Rx if proper professional kit is professionally installed but outside the glider community usage is patchy to say the least
I don't know why you think the above.
The, installed by me in my LAA aircraft, PowerFlarmFusion, works very well indeed. In fact sometimes I think almost too well!
I now have the range reduced to 4nm horizontally and 1000ft vertically ( due to seeing too much frivolous traffic)and the amount of ADSB, Flarm/PowerFlarm, Mode S traffic I see is quite alarming at times. Half the traffic I don't ever see visually, but on the V3+ display and other traffic displays I have it is certainly there.
Just pay the money and stop expecting the low cost portable stuff to do the job properly...it can't and wont!
PowerFlarmFusion whch also has ADSB 'in and Mode S 'in' is definitely the way to go for serious traffic detection IMHO.