To make matters more complicated:
The US plans to adapt UAT ADS-B in the lower airspace and not 1090ES ADS-B.
The two are not compatible and could only exchange information through ground stations...
In fact the MITRE or any other UAT ADS-B unit would be illegal anywhere outside the US (as that frequency is used otherwise).
The survey does not apply for anyone flying outside the US.
And while we are at it: $200 in components translates to an end user price of at least $1200 and that's without certification, the user interface and GPS...
If you don't believe me: how much does a modern transponder cost in components? And what's the end user price? See?
Urs is correct except for a couple of aspects:
- Anybody can take the survey. We are interested in where the soaring community in general sees value from ADS-B.
- The MITRE unit is expected to cost around $1000 on the market -- that includes the GPS and uses your own PDA (such as a Blackberry) as the user interface/display.
- For people interested in UAT vs. 1090ES, I have a couple of posts at ads-bforga.********.com on that dilemma.
EDIT: I guess they don't want the link to work...
Also, could you point me toward where you found that UAT would be illegal outside the US? I was not aware of that.