ADS-B out questions

[beeryboats]

Hi guys,
In doing some reading up on the ADS-B coming our way, I had some questions for those more in the know. I'm not flying yet, but soon, and I live just inside class D airspace. From what I've read I won't need to upgrade to fly from home. But if I stray far from home I'll need some new equipment? How much money we talking about to install this equipment? And will the alternator on my 582 be able to keep up with its power needs?

[Timberwolf]

Lots of options. You will need to research and see if you want UAT or 1090ES. Do you currently have a transponder? If not cheapest option right now is the stratus ESG. However, this provides nothing for the in portion. Right now I would say you’re better off just flying the crap out of the plane and spending that money elsewhere. I’m holding out on adsb for my rv-6 as I got burned on the navworx for my other plane. More companies will have cheaper solutions.

[Av8r_Sed]

First of all, do you really need it? Maybe if you don't need it near home, you should just get your plane flying and worry about it later.

AOPA has a lot of good information including this decision tree: https://www.aopa.org/go-fly/aircraft...ads-b-selector

If you do decide to equip, options start at around $1400 if you already have a Mode-C transponder. More like $2500 if you don't.

Only you can figure out if you have enough juice. You need to do a power budget by writing down all the equipment and power draw. My recollection is the 582 lighting coil puts out about 165 Watts. The regulator / rectifier you're using robs some of this. The best power savings I did with mine is to replace incandescent nav lights with LED. Also, older strobe systems are power hungry and there are LED alternatives now.

Personally, I like being able to see traffic and get audible alerts from my iPad. I would equip regardless if it was required or not since the prices have come down.

[beeryboats]

Lots of options. You will need to research and see if you want UAT or 1090ES. Do you currently have a transponder? If not cheapest option right now is the stratus ESG. However, this provides nothing for the in portion. Right now I would say you’re better off just flying the crap out of the plane and spending that money elsewhere. I’m holding out on adsb for my rv-6 as I got burned on the navworx for my other plane. More companies will have cheaper solutions.

You have an RV6 now? Cool!

[beeryboats]

Thanks guys. Lets just hope they don't decide to expand their class C airspace on me...

[Rodney]

Take a look at the IFLY website They have several options available. I bought the SkyGuardTWX system. It has both the in and UAT out functions. Nice to have traffic and weather I often fly around the north side of DFW class B. Sure is nice to see traffic Lots more traffic on ADSB than you would ever see visually

[bogmonster]

I love my uavionix solution. 1300$, simple, light, in/out. I did a post on it 6 months ago or so.