Dogpilot
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Thank you for the reply Tony. Of course this kind of circles back to the point I mentioned about DJI seriously needs to come up with a better naming scheme, or at least give them some easy to find product number.
Actually I have an Integra on order, but the lack of diopter adjustment remains to be seen if it will be a problem. The not being able to connect to the phone wirelessly is rather lazy programming. In my aircraft we have had devices connecting to the phone and pad for years doing ADS-B and weather data back and forth. Early on, phones would provide the position data to remote portable boxes to do ADS-B and other traffic position displays. So it has been possible for at least a decade with the current technology in the aviation field doing just this function. Even today, my Garmin G-1000Nxi system broadcasts and accepts bluetooth information, both from my transponder a GTX-345R and via a Garmin 510 network SD card, which does WiFi and bluetooth on an SD Card as an output device. They would have integrated it directly, but the FAA, ever vigilant to keep the latest technology out of aircraft, makes getting anything permanently attached to the airplane very expensive and time consuming to certify. The software on my portable Aero 760 navigator, my backup device. Also talks to my phone and pad and G-1000nxi with bi-directional wireless data. It, a simple $1500 device has far better software on it than the $65K screens in the cockpit. Along with wifi and bluetooth to talk to my phone, pad and fixed avionics in the aircraft. Not only that, both the fixed avionics and the portable will, through your phone if no wifi network exists happily talk to the FAA's flight plan service and file and receive flight plans, wirelessly.
The point is, doing it wireless obviously is not that difficult, been around, working, broadcasting aviation data for 15 years or so with the FAA quite happy it is being done that way. All this happening in a very niche market, aviation does not have a large consumer base like drones and they seem to be able to implement it. |
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