Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:19 am
#1653731
We have signed an agreement with Flarm that will enable our customers using a SkyEcho 2 ADSB device to receive Flarm signals directly from broadcasting aircraft.
As many of you will know, Flarm devices are fairly expensive and for some GA aircraft may be prohibitively so, or just one device too many in the cockpit. However, with a good proportion of the glider fleet throughout Europe emitting Flarm signals, we want to be able to receive these signals and avoid getting too close to one.
Our agreement means that the SkyEcho 2 can receive the Flarm signals and pass them to SkyDemon in their raw form. We then decode them and feed the telemetry from the Flarm aircraft into our normal collision avoidance algorithms. As the pilot, you won’t need to know or care whether it’s an ADSB or a Flarm signal that has been received; you’ll be warned about any conflict regardless.
Affordability was one of our main concerns when thinking about this partnership and it’ll cost our customers around £30 a year inc VAT to add the decoding ability to their subscription. Obviously, most of this goes to Flarm for licensing the functionality to us.
uAvionix have already started shipping the SkyEcho 2. Shipping devices will start carrying the Flarm capability within a few weeks and already shipped devices can be firmware upgraded at no cost. The next version of SkyDemon will contain the Flarm decoding ability.
As many of you will know, Flarm devices are fairly expensive and for some GA aircraft may be prohibitively so, or just one device too many in the cockpit. However, with a good proportion of the glider fleet throughout Europe emitting Flarm signals, we want to be able to receive these signals and avoid getting too close to one.
Our agreement means that the SkyEcho 2 can receive the Flarm signals and pass them to SkyDemon in their raw form. We then decode them and feed the telemetry from the Flarm aircraft into our normal collision avoidance algorithms. As the pilot, you won’t need to know or care whether it’s an ADSB or a Flarm signal that has been received; you’ll be warned about any conflict regardless.
Affordability was one of our main concerns when thinking about this partnership and it’ll cost our customers around £30 a year inc VAT to add the decoding ability to their subscription. Obviously, most of this goes to Flarm for licensing the functionality to us.
uAvionix have already started shipping the SkyEcho 2. Shipping devices will start carrying the Flarm capability within a few weeks and already shipped devices can be firmware upgraded at no cost. The next version of SkyDemon will contain the Flarm decoding ability.
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