Looks like Starlink is looking for their pound of flesh from aviators. Just received an email stating my Starlink mini sub will have to increase 5x to $250/mo. The 450mph plan is $1000/mo. This may be old news, but I wasn’t aware of it so sharing this so no one else is surprised.

Oh that's going to suck. Especially if they rigorously stick to those numbers. My Husky is about 100 KTAS so it will get prohibitively expensive. I've been very pleased with the 'standby' rate of $5/month ($7 CDN) and 500 kbit throughput. It's enough bandwidth for Foreflight weather and voice calls, but nice to know full speed was available on demand if needed. Oh well. Elon does what Elon does I suppose.

Do we know how this is going to work? If you try using it over 100 mph does it automatically bump you into the higher priced option or does it just not work?

Good lord,

Also, what if you have a slow plane and get a 30mph tailwind? Just turn the thing off for a bit?

I suspect it would either shut down or bump you down to standby mode if you break the speed limit. Seems unlikely they would automatically bump you to a significantly more expensive plan - but who knows??

Damn. I'm going to have to close pornhub and look out the window....

I'm glad I waited before buying in. I think I'll stick with my mini-InReach for coms in the back country. I can get weather on it too, so the critical functions are covered. I can wait for the nice-to-have internet features until I get home, or am parked someplace with cell phone coverage.

SmokeyTheBear wrote:Damn. I'm going to have to close pornhub and look out the window....

You, YOU"RE the reason they did this.