You get most of the things you really want from the weather, the biggest of which is digital radar. The weather is good, not as good as SiriusXM, but close enough to make it a viable alternative for those who don’t want to pay a monthly subscription fee.
#GARMIN GTX 345 BLUETOOTH PAIRING FLTPLAN GO PORTABLE#
The unit is compatible with panel-mount, integrated or portable displays.ĪDS-B brings to the party two big things: weather and traffic. The GTX 345 is an all-in-one ADS-B transponder that also features an optional GPS/WAAS sensor for airplanes that don’t already have one installed. With ADS-B, you get lots of goodies to accompany the new surveillance tool (which, unfortunately, sits right atop, sometimes figuratively speaking, your aforementioned, old-school, still-required Mode C grinder). Transponders may not be sexy, but there’s a lot more to them than ever before. “Yup, it seems to work, time for lunch.” With the gradual advent of ADS-B, times have surely changed.
Back in the day when Mode C was the epitome of surveillance technology, going flying to see how your transponder worked was about as interesting as trying out the flip/flop switch on your King comm radio. Now, it’s not very often I test-fly a transponder.
I got the chance to go flying with the Garmin GTX 345 all-in-one transponder recently, and it became clear to me that Garmin has gotten the product just right, answering the needs of many of its customers and doing it at a price that may not be as low as many will want, but that’s half the cost of what we all figured ADS-B would set us back when we started doing the calculations several years ago.
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