This is a test comment of Avweb’s ‘new’ comment section.
I do NOT like it … it’s too onerous and I think it’s going to drive all or most the previous commenters away. Avweb will likely lose many people due to this change?
BIG mistake !!! The old system was usable to the masses; this setup … NOT so much.
Meanwhile … good on Garmin for another fine improvement to their designs.
I still don’t see how I should log in on the main web page. I also don’t see the AvWeb Flash archive or the current edition on the web site.
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I guess it a good thing, Garmin that is. However glass in cockpits are getting more and more cluttered…and confusing if looking for something quickly. AVWeb new look…I don’t know. Too new I guess. It’s about comfort. For now, very uncomfortable. Guess I’ll get use to it…maybe. It seems very commercial in appearance. I’m still grumpy about Google changing their news format long ago. But, I’m not a good guy to try new stuff on actually.
I also can’t find that; “Continue the conversation …” does take me to a login screen. Where my previous credentials would not work.
Test. To see if I remained logged in. I guess I am.
Is this then a charge for item? Subscription fees are growing rather rapidly! Will they make it a part of a package? Is it cost per equipment, per aircraft? Lot’s of data unknown.
Foreflight already does this, for free.
Promising for biz jet owners.
As for the new website formatting, I am not a fan. Don’t mind change for the better, not change for change’s sake. Reminds me of the change in store layouts- you have to walk around in circles to find your way out of a mall store. Old format allowed me to see the current new stories and ignore those I previously viewed.
My $0.02
So this is a step. But it doesn’t address aircraft that aren’t on ADS-B or an equivalent datalink for whatever reason - packet collisions, equipment failures, don’t have ADS-B out, etc. For autonomous aircraft in DoD, we are considering onboard sensors that can be used to independently do detections among other things that autonomous aircraft would need to do. And some sensors aren’t what you would normally think. Imagine a system that can listen to radios calls and infer that a problem is in the making like the runway incursion at Austin between Southwest and FedEx.
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Interesting that photo used for announcing new item shows an invalid runway number.
No such thing as Runway 01! Leading zeros are not used.
New format is VERY user unfriendly.