They significantly increase the receiving power (gain) of the system, which can be useful in areas with limited ADS-B coverage. These are 978 MHz and 1090 MHz tuned antennas that are 1/2 wave, rather than the 1/4 wave of the stock antennas. Anyone with an outstanding order qualifies for the $10 discount on the remote GPS.)Īt the same time we are adding an option for high gain antennas.
(Note that any outstanding orders placed prior to today will go out with the internal VK-172. The remote GPS will be available as a $35 add-on, which makes it a bit more expensive than it is today – but only if you want or need the GPS feature. (Sending products back to China is… problematic.) We’re dropping the price of the dual band kit from $250 to $240. When they work, the VK-172s are great little GPSs, but we’ve had enough marginal performers that it makes more sense to remove it and instead offer an optional product that has top-notch quality, stateside technical support, and an RMA program. We’ve made the decision to phase out the VK-172 GPS module that we’ve been shipping since we launched.
The plastic is thin and it is quite simple to make the cut with an Xacto knife. I hope to publish a video showing how this is done in the next few days. To use the remote GPS you will need to cut out the “U” to make room for the USB plug from the GPS. You may have noticed the U-shaped partial cut at the end of the box near the USB risers. The remote GPS will require a bit of minor surgery on your FlightBox case. The $10 discount will apply to that as well.
#FLTPLAN GO FOR RASPBERRY PI FULL#
If you want the full remote solution, wait another few weeks you can save yourself a bit on shipping. Please email me for your personal discount code. Before you order, please note that we’re working on a complete “remote kit” that includes the GPS as well as cables and a suction cup window mount for the ADS-B antennas. The list price is $35, but I am offering a one-time $10 discount to all existing FlightBox owners (anyone who has completed an order prior to to today). We have 100 remote GPS units in stock and more on order. Remote GPSįor everyone who’s been waiting for a remote GPS option, the wait is over. Sincere apologies to anyone who was bit by this bug. We had close to a dozen people test-flying the first build, and we had very little in the way of trouble with it. The lesson is to never, ever take for granted that something works. If we make another platform change in the future, I will round up as many beta testers as I did for the original FlightBox launch early in the year. A week later we had almost everyone up and running. We re-imaged 250 SD cards, built up over 50 “recovery packs”, and shipped them out to anyone who had problems Pi 3. We tested it on 10 different Pi 3s from two lots. A somewhat longer power cable that we shipped with the Pi 3 kits exacerbated the problem significantly. I spent the next several days writing and testing a new script. A script that had been working fine for months on the Pi 2 failed to work correctly on some of the new Pi 3s. After a weekend of research it turned out to be an incredibly subtle change in the shell script command interpreter on the new Linux operating system.
We had approximately 25 of them mysteriously fail – no wifi. I re-learned the hard way that a larger sample is mandatory.Īt the end of April we sent out the first 75 kits based on the Pi 3.
But – as anyone in the IT field knows – just because something works perfectly on one system (or two) is no guarantee that it will do the same on all systems – even theoretically identical semi-embedded devices like the Raspberry Pi. I ordered two of them the day they were released and put more than 25 flight hours on them before we made the switch. In theory the change should have been quite simple and a small net positive for both users and Open Flight. We recently switched from using the Raspberry Pi 2 to the new Raspberry Pi 3. The first of these is that platform changes are never as easy as you expect. I’ve spent the past several weeks re-learning several lessons. This isn’t my first entrepreneurial rodeo, but it’s been a while. By ssokol The Re-Learning Curve, Remote GPS Re-Learning Curve
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