@Dimme
After few months, are you still happy with the SKYECHO 2 ?
I’m still waiting for the infamous firmware update that will give Mode C/S proximity alerts that was supposed to come out early 2019.
All other features work fine so far, FLARM detection works, ADS-B works. However, I was not able to receive any UAT weather two days ago when I was flying over Denmark, but that was something like 130 NM from the transmitter and I was “only” at FL55.
@Dimme
Thank you for your answer.
I read above, from @Airborne_Again, what high wing metallic shielded, in his experience, any traffic detection. How is it possible you had such different results ?
I have used it in both high and low wing aircraft.
I haven’t noticed any significant difference in ADS-B targets, but of course I see no Mode C/S targets in either case, which would be the real result, since the firmware doesn’t support it yet.
I think @Airborne_Again is referring to Mode C/S targets that the PowerFlarm can already now – technically – detect.
Dimme wrote:
I think @Airborne_Again is referring to Mode C/S targets that the PowerFlarm can already now – technically – detect.
On my trial flight in a C172 with a PowerFlarm portable, I was looking for mode C and Flarm targets. I found the reception generally poor and heavily dependent on aircraft attitude. E.g. it couldn’t detect a mode C target about 3 miles away until I banked towards it.
But that is better than nothing. Collisions usually happen in smaller distances than 3 miles. When I see ADS-B targets 1 miles away they actually look much smaller than one would expect.
Not having azimuth on mode C is rather useless though.
A sample video of SkyEcho 2 detecting FLARM somewhere over Germany:
Ah but which wing?
Knowledge without appropriate capability to act is inherently limited 
However there is no cheap solution…
