rocket wrote:...Phil, was that you at 5NK in the SQ-2? pm me next time you are out here: warm dry hanger...etc

Wasn't me Rocket, but I'll take you up on your offer next time I'm up.

I've been playing on my local rivers/lakes here in the Hill Country of Texas.

Spent some time in the back country this morning. There is a "high" ADS B tower at the north end of the Cascade reservoir. Looks like it is located at the Donnelly VOR site. I was picking it up most everywhere when I was up above the high stuff. Nothing in the canyons of coarse.

rw2 wrote:

Swindler wrote:The FAA came up with this idea before the explosion of tablet based navigation, weather, flight planning etc. I keep hoping someone sees the light on this ADS-B thing and we can comply with the 2020 rule via portable, reliable, and relatively cheap tablets. I'm not wagering a large or even small sum of money on this outcome though.

ADS-B is primarily a radar/transponder update, not something that tablets can replace. Getting weather info is almost an afterthought. So I'm not sure what there is to see the light on in any meaningful sense.

If the FAA could see the light on something like this I might embrace the change a little better (http://www.mitre.org/sites/default/file ... 7_0634.pdf). The paper focuses on providing a lightweight, low cost, low power ADS-B out option for UAS but it obviously could have an application to small aircraft like ours. If something like this could cover the "out" and a tablet could cover the "in" I think we'd find most of the GA fleet making the upgrade.