Rob wrote:Really cool stuff to nerd out on, but like, a decade behind for special ops stuff, and like... a century advanced for backcountry boondockers, with no real world use in play.
If you can't play, out in the farthest reaches of the entire world without such tools, you're probably not going to make it if 'bad' happens with them.
I recently had an abbreviated training session for night ag ops with a 'patriot' individual who probably couldn't successfully hunt himself out of starvation if he was in the middle of a cattle ranch. But he probably has one of these.
Take care, Rob
For a single plane on burger run probably not that useful
AES256 is still pretty good encryption as is the DF limitations being on a band many so things use, also being open source is nice
My thought on posting it here is for some of the peeps who run GPSless iPads, you could use this as the GPS and if you’re flying with a few buddies you could also send lat/long or texts back and forth if you’re within a couple miles, or if you’re talking to someone on the ground putting one of these in your pocket is probably easier and less power and all than a portable radio, plus it’s easier to read a lat/long or gate code off a screen vs possibly garbled voice, and you can just click the position and have it in foreflight or whatever backcountry mapping software you already have in your phone
I hear ya on not needing it, heck looking at ultralights there’s tons you don’t NEED to fly, but that’s everything, tech to $25k Ti landing gear legs, I can fly partial panel approaches, engine failures, other system failures, etc, even enjoy a checkride on it every 6mo, I still like having good tech and tools in the office however
