Congress Just Mandated ADS-B In for Most Aircraft by 2031. Here's What GA Pilots Need to Know. The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure passed the ALERT Act 62-0 on March 26, 2026 — and its ADS-B In mandate puts...
What Makes the Best ADS-B Receiver for ForeFlight® in 2026? Start With These Four Questions Search "best ADS-B receiver for ForeFlight®" and you'll get a lot of spec sheets. Sensitivity numbers, GPS accuracy, battery life claims. Good stuff to know....
Your Stratux's GPS Lock Problem Has a $20 Fix If you've ever sat on the ramp waiting for your Stratux to find itself — watching the GPS light blink for 90 seconds while you're trying to brief a departure —...
What ADS-B Weather Actually Shows Pilots (NEXRAD, METARs, PIREPs) ADS-B weather is free, it's in the cockpit, and most GA pilots still don't fully understand what it's showing them. Not all ADS-B weather is the same, not all of it...
The One Upgrade That Changes What Stratux Looks Like on Your EFB If you've got a Stratux running and you're happy with weather and traffic, there's one more thing it can do that a lot of pilots haven't tried: feed...
A GPS track log is one of the most useful things your Raspberry Pi isn’t doing yet. Trip logs for road trips. Time-correlated dash cam footage. Hiking route archives. Fleet tracking on the cheap. All of it runs on a...
Two pilots are dead. The FAA issued an emergency order. And the conversation about situational awareness in and around airports just changed. On March 23, an Air Canada CRJ-900 on landing rollout at LaGuardia collided with an airport fire truck...
Three months after the DCA collision, another aircraft and another missing transponder. Late Sunday night, an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 on final approach to LaGuardia Airport's Runway 4 struck a Port Authority fire truck crossing the runway. Both pilots were...
Most Pilots Don't Think About Their UAT Radio. Until It Stops Working. Most people buy a Stratux and never upgrade it. That's fine — it works. But if you've ever wondered why the UAT radio occasionally misses traffic, why your...
Why Open Source Matters in Aviation: The Stratux Story In 2015, a pilot named Chris Young published a GitHub repository called Stratux. He’d built an ADS-B receiver from a Raspberry Pi, two RTL-SDR dongles, and some code he wrote himself...
