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Author Topic: RadarBox as in-flight traffic spotter?  (Read 3553 times)

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SkeptisFromTexas

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RadarBox as in-flight traffic spotter?
« on: January 06, 2009, 08:17:57 PM »
In the United States, is there any reason why I couldn't take a RadarBox and a laptop onboard my small plane and use it to see where all the traffic is around me?  A sort of TCAS but with a full display of everything?  Or will I only see the aircraft that have ADS-B? (which are few and far between in the US)

pilot_ngb

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Re: RadarBox as in-flight traffic spotter?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 08:22:12 PM »
You will only see a small percentage of aircraft. Hardly any GA aircraft are sending out full ADS-B.

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Re: RadarBox as in-flight traffic spotter?
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 11:05:13 PM »
In the United States, is there any reason why I couldn't take a RadarBox and a laptop onboard my small plane and use it to see where all the traffic is around me?  A sort of TCAS but with a full display of everything?  Or will I only see the aircraft that have ADS-B? (which are few and far between in the US)


Just remember, it's always the one that you don't see that gets you!

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Re: RadarBox as in-flight traffic spotter?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2009, 07:46:06 AM »
In the United States, is there any reason why I couldn't take a RadarBox and a laptop onboard my small plane and use it to see where all the traffic is around me?  A sort of TCAS but with a full display of everything?  Or will I only see the aircraft that have ADS-B? (which are few and far between in the US)

If don't know if it's the case for RadarBox, but SBS certainly picks up TCAS acquisition squitters.

Having said that, those squitters don't contain any navigational data, so all you would know is that a given hex code is somewhere within range.
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