FreeFlight View App Adds New V 2.0 Features

FreeFlight Systems released version 2.0 of its ADS-B View iPad app, the company announced at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention. The app works with FreeFlight’s Rangr ADS-B receivers to deliver ADS-B _IN weather, traffic and textual data via Wi-Fi to the iPad.

The View app includes a map, with overlays of graphical weather and traffic. This can include a looping mode, for viewing weather changes over time, according to FreeFlight. Map features can include runways, roads, lakes and state and county lines as well as own-ship position of the aircraft provided by the Rangr’s internal Waas/GPS.

Another new View feature is the ability to support connection of multiple tablets to the Rangr. “As with the previous version, and in keeping with the ‘Free Weather and Traffic’ philosophy of ADS-B, the app is available free of charge from the Apple store and works with any FreeFlight Systems ADS-B _IN system,” said FreeFlight president and CEO Tim Taylor.

At the AEA convention, FreeFlight also announced that it has received EASA TSO-C145c certification for its 1203C SBAS/GNSS sensor, which already is certified by the FAA to TSO-C145c. The 15-channel 1203C can be used as the rule-compliant position source for ADS-B _OUT installations for all types of aircraft, including airliners, business turboprops and jets and rotorcraft. “It also can serve as the approved position and timing source for CPDLC, RNP 0.3 installations and Taws/FMS via an Arinc 743A 2-wire interface,” according to FreeFlight.