Sporty's Updates Stratus 2

Sporty’s Updates Stratus 2

Isabel Goyer

Thursday, April 03, 2014 at 10:07 PM ET

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** Stratus 2**

Key Takeaways:

Sporty's and ForeFlight announced significant firmware enhancements for the Stratus 2 ADS-B receiver/AHRS unit, improving its performance, battery life, and safety without hardware changes.
Key new features include the ability to store incoming weather data in sleep mode and a 30-minute weather playback function to show trends for storm tracking.
The Stratus 2's attitude capabilities are integrated with the newly redesigned ForeFlight app (version 6), enabling a virtual panel display with synthetic vision and flight information, with firmware updates delivered automatically through the app.

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At Sun ‘n Fun, Sporty’s and ForeFlight announced big enhancements to the Stratus 2 ADS-B receiver/AHRS unit. The Stratus 2 is a joint production of manufacturer Appareo, iOS app developer ForeFlight and founding partner Sporty’s. The new firmware for the Status 2 — there are no hardware changes — utilized a number of new strategies to improve performance and battery life, while improving the unit’s already strong safety appeal. When Stratus receives weather information while in sleep mode, it holds the data in reserve until the pilot calls it up. It can also play back the last 30 minutes of regional or national weather, giving the pilot valuable trend information for storm cell tracking.

For its attitude capability, the Stratus 2 makes use of the newly redesigned ForeFlight app, which is at version 6. The new app allows pilots to display a virtual panel with synthetic vision and attitude, altitude, groundspeed and vertical speed information. The firmware for Stratus 2 will load automatically through ForeFlight version 6, which will be available starting Monday, April 7.