ADS-B - 1090ES/978 UAT Panel and Portable

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Hello - new here and my first post!
The latest Aviation Safety (November) has a nice article on upgrade choices. They mention (and I for one will likely follow) that the traffic-in for many will be managed on portable (less expensive equipment) devices, e.g. iPads w Stratus.

I have a GTX 330/430W which I plan to add 1090ES. So my "out" will be solved.

Question 1 - I see TIS traffic on my 430 now so does that mean the wiring behind the panel is already good to go and adding 1090ES to the 330 is the only cost involved?

Question 2 - I have a Stratus 1 w Foreflight. Will I get traffic on my iPad if the settings in the 330ES are configured correctly?

Thanks for your responses. I know this is an active topic but did not see answers for these delineated.
Craig
 
I was in an ADS-B presentation a few weeks ago and it was explained to me that the IN side still needs to be some sort of individually identifiable item that is matched to the airplane. The reason was that TIS-B and weather would be "stolen" from another intended recipient for things like the Stratus and produce some amount of false returns because of timing.

He also explained that some solutions exist that give you a certified IN source that will be able to have a connection to your ipad or other device. We were talking about as it relates to club plane needs, so that seemed like a worthwhile idea.

I thought the 330 traffic was different from the ADS-B IN TIS-B traffic, but I could be mistaken. Someone else here probably knows.

The biggest thing I got out of it, though, was that it seems like even the avionics shops don't quite know what they're doing yet.
 
You are almost there. Even though you have TIS traffic on the 430w there are a couple more things to do to receive all the ADS-B traffic. If you've not already done so, have the avionics shop update the 430w software to the latest (5.0) version. You will also need a wire from an RS-232 output on the 430 to an RS-232 input on the 330ES. They will configure this output "ADS-B OUT +" on the 430. This will send the required GPS data to your transponder.
The Stratus 1 / iPad will receive your ADS-B traffic. The 330ES configuration will be set to show you receive on the UAT frequency. They will also configure a few other settings on the 330 to make it ADS-B compatible.
 
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Dihedral said:
You are almost there. Even though you have TIS traffic on the 430w there are a couple more things to do to receive all the ADS-B traffic. If you've not already done so, have the avionics shop update the 430w software to the latest version. You will also need a wire from an ARINC output on the 430 to an ARINC input on the 330ES. They will configure this output "ADS-B OUT +" on the 430.
The Stratus 1 / iPad will receive your ADS-B traffic. The 330ES configuration will be set to show you receive on the UAT frequency. They will also configure a few other settings on the 330 to make it ADS-B compatible.
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True statements all as near as I can tell. I went through this on the 'Kota and the description above is spot on.

After a couple flights with the new setup, email the FAA ABS-B compliance folks for a check of the new system. They respond quickly and give a written report which gives the details of the system performance.
 
I would recommend a Stratus 2 if you have 1090ES ADS-B Out. With a Stratus 1, you can't detect own ship because it is on the other frequency and the GBT doesn't generate an ADS-R for own ship. If you have a UAT for ADS-B Out, a Stratus 1 or 2 will receive the own ship broadcasts.
 
John Collins said:
I would recommend a Stratus 2 if you have 1090ES ADS-B Out. With a Stratus 1, you can't detect own ship because it is on the other frequency and the GBT doesn't generate an ADS-R for own ship. If you have a UAT for ADS-B Out, a Stratus 1 or 2 will receive the own ship broadcasts.
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John
Thanks. You lost me with GBT and ADS-R- a level beyond my understanding. If you can explain it would be appreciated.
Craig

Aggies/Dihedral/Throttle - thank you for your responses - printing for reference!
Craig
 
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John
Thanks. You lost me with GBT and ADS-R- a level beyond my understanding. If you can explain it would be appreciated.
Craig

Aggies/Dihedral/Throttle - thank you for your responses - printing for reference!
Craig
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Sorry, GBT is the acronym for the ADS-B ground station (Ground Based Transceiver). ADS-R is a service provided by a GBT to an aircraft that has a single frequency ADS-B In capability such as the Stratus 1. The R portion of the acronym stands for Rebroadcast.

With a Stratus 1, you can only receive on the UAT frequency of 978 MHz. This allows you to receive air to air ADS-B traffic broadcasts generated by aircraft that have a UAT ADS-B Out system installed. But you can't receive any air to air broadcasts on the 1090 MHz frequency used by 1090ES transponders. To solve the inability to receive the 1090 MHz broadcasts by your receiver, the GBT provides the ADS-R service and rebroadcasts these on the UAT frequency so you can receive them and therefore be aware of ADS-B 1090 MHz equipped aircraft. This service is provided for every aircraft in your vicinity (15 NM radius and +/- 5000 feet) with the singular exception of your own aircraft. This means that with a Stratus 1 and a 1090ES ADS-B Out system installed in your aircraft, you don't have any way of detecting your own ship.
 
aggie06 said:
it was explained to me that the IN side still needs to be some sort of individually identifiable item that is matched to the airplane. The reason was that TIS-B and weather would be "stolen" from another intended recipient for things like the Stratus and produce some amount of false returns because of timing.
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Horsefeathers. This portion is not true and sounds like creative wording by a salesman to steer you away from portable ADS-B in devices. First, FIS-B (Weather, TFRs, and other flight data) is broadcast 24/7 without any intended target. There is no such thing as stealing it from another aircraft's intended transmission, because FIS-B is not aircraft specific. This is the primary reason the portable receivers exist to begin with... it gets you all that data for free all the time.

TIS-B traffic is only transmitted in response to an ADS-B out signal. The GBT receives an ADS-B out transmission on 978 or 1090ES. It responds by transmitting all the ADS-B and radar traffic within a 3 mile and 3000ft radius around your aircraft's location. It ends up looking like a hockey puck shape bubble around your plane.

If you do not have ADS-B out, you can "steal" another aircraft's TIS-B transmission. But it's not stealing. You will see the same traffic picture. It will not be delayed or otherwise different. It just won't be very useful to you unless you're tailgating that other aircraft.
 
Pedals2Paddles said:
It responds by transmitting all the ADS-B and radar traffic within a 3 mile and 3000ft radius around your aircraft's location. It ends up looking like a hockey puck shape bubble around your plane.
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Minor correction, the TISB target is generally broadcast for a client if it is within +/- 3500 feet vertically and a 15 NM radius of the client. If the client has a single frequency ADS-B In capability, then ADS-R will be broadcast based on the same radius, but +/- 5000 feet vertically.
 
Thanks for the clarification Pedals2Paddles. One of my concerns with all the sky-is-falling, better-get-it-installed-next-week we hear about this is that all the avionics shops don't really know what they are talking about and what the right solution is for different missions. So then people either end up getting more than they need, or worse, they spend a bunch of money and don't get what they need.
 
John Collins said:
Sorry, GBT is the acronym for the ADS-B ground station (Ground Based Transceiver). ADS-R is a service provided by a GBT to an aircraft that has a single frequency ADS-B In capability such as the Stratus 1. The R portion of the acronym stands for Rebroadcast.

With a Stratus 1, you can only receive on the UAT frequency of 978 MHz. This allows you to receive air to air ADS-B traffic broadcasts generated by aircraft that have a UAT ADS-B Out system installed. But you can't receive any air to air broadcasts on the 1090 MHz frequency used by 1090ES transponders. To solve the inability to receive the 1090 MHz broadcasts by your receiver, the GBT provides the ADS-R service and rebroadcasts these on the UAT frequency so you can receive them and therefore be aware of ADS-B 1090 MHz equipped aircraft. This service is provided for every aircraft in your vicinity (15 NM radius and +/- 5000 feet) with the singular exception of your own aircraft. This means that with a Stratus 1 and a 1090ES ADS-B Out system installed in your aircraft, you don't have any way of detecting your own ship.
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John - thanks - a great explanation. Appreciate the expertise and time.
Craig
 
Ok, very timely thread. I just had my 330 updgrated to ES and my 530 and 430 upgraded to WAAS. Problem is that the configuration settings in the GPSs were not saved and we're trying to ferret out what ports are connected to what.

So far we have the legacy Encoder working (seeing press alt output on the 330), the GDL69 and 530/430 crossfill working, I'm receiving some traffic on the GPSs (TIS-A I know there's a better term), and more traffic on the Stratus 2 (including broadcast towers and ship to ship ES). But I'm not receiving my own ship on the Stratus and so it appears I'm not broadcasting an ADS-B out signal. We must still have something wrong. We were thinking that I already had an RS232 channel connected since the "No ADS-B" message on the 330ES goes out as soon as the GPS locks on the satellites.

I have confirmed the 330 is receiving GSPD, Lat, Lon, etc. on the ARINC 429 IN1 port, and it's uploading traffic to the 530. It doesn't look like the 330 RS232 IN1 is receiving anything even though we have the 530 RS232 Out1 set to Aviation. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been trying to figure out the configuration (in order to reduce shop churn time and cost) but don't have the installation manuals for the 530W with new software, or the 330ES.

Thanks,

Jim
 
Configure the 430 or 530 RS-232 output that sends data to the 330: "ADS-B Out+"
 
Tembek said:
Ok, very timely thread. I just had my 330 updgrated to ES and my 530 and 430 upgraded to WAAS. Problem is that the configuration settings in the GPSs were not saved and we're trying to ferret out what ports are connected to what.



So far we have the legacy Encoder working (seeing press alt output on the 330), the GDL69 and 530/430 crossfill working, I'm receiving some traffic on the GPSs (TIS-A I know there's a better term), and more traffic on the Stratus 2 (including broadcast towers and ship to ship ES). But I'm not receiving my own ship on the Stratus and so it appears I'm not broadcasting an ADS-B out signal. We must still have something wrong. We were thinking that I already had an RS232 channel connected since the "No ADS-B" message on the 330ES goes out as soon as the GPS locks on the satellites.



I have confirmed the 330 is receiving GSPD, Lat, Lon, etc. on the ARINC 429 IN1 port, and it's uploading traffic to the 530. It doesn't look like the 330 RS232 IN1 is receiving anything even though we have the 530 RS232 Out1 set to Aviation. Does anyone have any ideas?



I have been trying to figure out the configuration (in order to reduce shop churn time and cost) but don't have the installation manuals for the 530W with new software, or the 330ES.



Thanks,



Jim
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With this issue, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect the shop to resolve these bugs at no charge since they are the ones that declined to save (or document) the configuration prior to deleting it?
 
Tembek said:
Ok, very timely thread. I just had my 330 updgrated to ES and my 530 and 430 upgraded to WAAS. Problem is that the configuration settings in the GPSs were not saved and we're trying to ferret out what ports are connected to what.

So far we have the legacy Encoder working (seeing press alt output on the 330), the GDL69 and 530/430 crossfill working, I'm receiving some traffic on the GPSs (TIS-A I know there's a better term), and more traffic on the Stratus 2 (including broadcast towers and ship to ship ES). But I'm not receiving my own ship on the Stratus and so it appears I'm not broadcasting an ADS-B out signal. We must still have something wrong. We were thinking that I already had an RS232 channel connected since the "No ADS-B" message on the 330ES goes out as soon as the GPS locks on the satellites.

I have confirmed the 330 is receiving GSPD, Lat, Lon, etc. on the ARINC 429 IN1 port, and it's uploading traffic to the 530. It doesn't look like the 330 RS232 IN1 is receiving anything even though we have the 530 RS232 Out1 set to Aviation. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been trying to figure out the configuration (in order to reduce shop churn time and cost) but don't have the installation manuals for the 530W with new software, or the 330ES.

Thanks,

Jim
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You have to add another serial port wire and configure it as "ADSB Out+" on the GNS530W side and on the GTX330ES set the port to Remote. The one with aviation data is most likely used by a fuel totalizer and is also previously wired to the GTX330 to set ground or in-flight status. Your installer should RTFM. I have seen this error made several times and the GTX330ES gets a position but none of the other required data. I won't show up on the Stratus 2 because the NIC value is not coming from the GPS along with other data. A NIC of zero means that the position containment radius is unknown or greater than 20 NM. IOW the position is totally untrustworthy.
 
Thanks John. Was afraid of that. Was hoping there was enough position data in the ARINC stream for the WAAS position confirmation and that the GSPD in that dataset would be enough for the GND/STBY state. I tried using that RS232 channel (Aviation-Remote) as ADS-B OUT+ to Remote but didn't work.

Jim
 
Tembek said:
Thanks John. Was afraid of that. Was hoping there was enough position data in the ARINC stream for the WAAS position confirmation and that the GSPD in that dataset would be enough for the GND/STBY state. I tried using that RS232 channel (Aviation-Remote) as ADS-B OUT+ to Remote but didn't work.

Jim
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What you likely have is the most common screw up for upgrades of the GTX330 to ES I have seen. The Avionics shop did not even bother to follow the STC install manual. They probably removed the GTX330, sent it back for upgrade, re-installed it without any changes. The original installation has a serial input from the GNS530W configured for Aviation data to determine air/ground status and is typically used for other purposes such as linking to a portable and or a moving map and or a fuel totalizer. So the GTX330ES has a position input but none of the other mandated data, some of which is used by the ground station to determine if the position is trustworthy to use. The shop also probably doesn't have the test equipment to verify the installation is working properly and configured properly. If Stratus 2 won't detect it as own ship, the installation is very likely to be screwed up. If it does detect own ship, you can tap on it and display all the data elements used for compliance and if they use a green font, it means the parameter is compliant, a red font, not so much.

Avionics shops have a long way to go before they reliably install these systems.
 
I think you've got it John but in this case there were some extenuating circumstances. I travel a lot and so several shops have been involved. My 330 went out while in VA and so I told the shop there to have it upgraded instead of just repaired. At the time I didn't have WAAS yet but told them I would be upgrading later when I had time and so I wanted the 330ES to be ready. I didn't know enough to make sure they installed another 232 line. Then I started my GPS upgrade with my shop in NY but by the time everything was ready to pull the units I was in TX, so had someone else do the removal. Finally I'm at another shop in TX that's installing the GPSs and trying to make everything right. Can't really blame anyone. They're all good shops, just had some communication gaps (mostly mine!).

Jim
 
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