AirVenture 2025 Video: Stratus 4 Portable ADS-B

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Originally published at: AirVenture 2025 Video: Stratus 4 Portable ADS-B - AVweb

Portable ADS-B for $849 from Stratus.

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Having a device that tells me that there are nine targets out there without showing me where they are is totally useless.
It’s nothing but an expensive toy.

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Five years ago, I had one that blue toothed to my iPad or iPhone both of which had Wings X on it. It was super fantastic. It showed all the taffic around me in real time on the iPad wings X map. It also had AHRS display and could get loads of extra info. I have to assume this one does as much. And I had all this good info while flying around in my '46 non electric Aeronca Chief. I considered it a very best buy. Hope this on can do as much for you.

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There is so much about this product I just don’t understand, and I spend all of the time I’m not flying designing products so that I can pay for flying. I hope Appareo sees this and reaches out to me:

  • This is HUGE. In today’s day and age of low power processors there is ZERO reason this needs to be so large.
  • You do NOT need a screen in order to enable firmware updates. This can be done with Bluetooth with all promps on a user’s mobile phone or tablet
  • If anyone is looking at this screen during flight they are looking at the wrong screen
  • With today’s LiPo battery technology and the tens of thousands of charge cycles they support, there is little need for a battery door which drastically complicates tooling for a product like this.
  • I don’t know a single pilot that will care that the side profile looks like an airfoil…and my company’s name is Airfoil Corp :). It’s wasted space, complicates and increases the cost of tooling, and the industrial design can dramatically be improved. What pilots will care about is battery life, size, and cost.
  • Without opening this up, I would place a large bet we could cut the size in half and increase the battery life by a large margin.
  • Appareo - reach out: info@airfoil.co (NOT .com)
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