+x Tim Dawson - 6/2/2020 11:45:50 AMThe PilotAware option in SkyDemon uses the FLARM protocol, but broadcast over UDP instead of via a persistent TCP connection. The reason for its invention was unreliable TCP connections, and since then we've made the FLARM connection more robust so that it automatically reconnects.We do show range circles when the FLARM protocol advises us of a nearby bearingless target that it believes may be a threat. This is particular to the FLARM protocol, its threat-classification of such targets is proprietary. We do not issue any SkyDemon warnings based on such information and we never have. Indeed we believe them a distraction to the pilot, as noted in a previous post.You can probably imagine given our stated position on bearingless targets that we are not interested in working to extend a protocol for the purpose of including them.Your proposal to have ADL and PaW work together to transmit some sort of shared picture to SkyDemon sounds like a potentially workable means of getting both traffic and satellite-derived weather into SkyDemon. You're into unsupported territory as far as we are concerned, but it might just work. If you were to bring a new device to market that did both, you'd simply use GDL90 which supports this.
+x Tim Dawson - 6/2/2020 1:08:47 PMWe would only support something like that if there was a demonstrable widespread demand for it.
+x Tim Dawson - 6/2/2020 1:31:30 PMSorry, you think your poll here giving no information on pros and cons is sufficient to demonstrate widespread demand for us creating a niche and complex feature in SkyDemon with its associated costs, including the costs of us stopping work on core features that most pilots will enjoy?