AOPA Pilot Magazine - June 2015 - 38

PILOT BRIEFING
PILOT PRODUCTS

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Flight Stream
The black box that bridges the gap
BY GEORGE PERRY

LIKE THOUSANDS of general
aviation cockpits, my airplane
is equipped with a Garmin GNS
430W. Apart from that, there's
nothing all that modern in my
panel. All the other "glass" in
the panel is the old-school kind
that covers traditional six-pack
instruments.
As the head of AOPA's Air
Safety Institute, when I started
thinking about upgrading for
ADS-B compliance, a big factor in my decision was safety
first-and then how to get the
most bang for my buck. I knew
an upgraded nav/com was off
the table. I decided my trusty
430 still has lots of life left in
it. I wanted TIS-B (traffic) and
FIS-B (weather) for the safety
benefits. With that as starting
point, I began learning about
options to get the benefits of THE GARMIN Flight Stream 210.
both ADS-B Out and In.
About two years ago, I
heard from a Garmin rep about
a new gadget the company was
releasing that would connect everything in the cockpit. It was called the Flight Stream
210. He explained this little black box would connect both my panel-mounted 430W,
GDL 88 (ADS-B-based weather and traffic), and my iPad.
There's no way to talk about the Flight Stream in isolation. Its purpose is to connect devices to one another wirelessly. Until recently, the problem had always been
the separation between panel and portable. Portable systems are inexpensive, capable,
and easy to use. Part 23 panel-mounted systems are expensive, and sometimes cumbersome to operate. With the Flight Stream as a "bridge," it connects the two worlds
of Garmin certified and portable products-and it does it seamlessly. With the Flight
Stream, the Garmin Pilot electronic flight bag (EFB) iPad app talks to the Flight Stream,
and the Flight Stream talks to the GDL 88 and 430W. And these communications work
both ways. Make a change or update in one place (panel or portable) and the other side
knows it and updates as well (with your concurrence).
I knew the Flight Stream/GDL 88 combo would give me weather and traffic
on my iPad, but the real magic only became clear to me after recently filing an IFR flight

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