If a device could produce the following would you like to see it all in Skydemon at the same time? 

• GPS Location
• Traffic:
• P3I: from PilotAware equipped aircraft.
• ADS-B: from an ADS-B Out transponder
• Mode-C: from a Mode C transponder
• Mode-S: from a Mode S transponder
• FLARM*: From a FLARM transceiver*When in range of an OGN-R transceiver
• Weather:
• Radar Weather (cloud and rainfall)
• METARs
• TAFs

And can do the following in an companion App on the same tablet

• Weather:
• Other data such as Lighetning, Infrared
• Communications:
• Onboard SMS and Email

+x

 

marioair - 5/29/2020 6:58:14 AM

I’m based in the UK and there’s no signal below about 2000ft generallly. I see the same in Western Europe.

The new LTE antenna provide data connection in continental Europe mostly up to about 3,500ft quite reliably; 5,000ft sufficient; 8,000ft occasional. Yes, voice often stops between 2,000 and 3,500ft, but the modern multi array antennas for data reach much further. That is one of the reasons they discuss further systems based on internet connections. I know in the UK it can be challenging, but looking at the logs 2,500ft never was a real issue in Southern UK. Going up North is a different story, indeed.

• a performant/compressed way of getting data and also skydemon still needs to be able to display it. 
• Given the is a SD thread - if SD natively isnt offering a reliable means of getting weather data (by this I mean radar) then you need an external feed, even if that's using another app on the device using the LTE connection. I've made another request for Tim to consider either

• Allowing extension of GDL format to allow for this (so we don't lose other aspects of traffic listed in original post) or

• Allowing concurrent consumption of GDL and Flarm or

• Some other suggestion from Tim!