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@Chadodesu I get it. Hacking is fun. Flight radar is a nice platform. Wouldn’t it be interesting if you could get the free ads-b from flightradar and hack that to duplicate the data and send it over to wingbits. I remember when you had to buy the ads-b receiver and port the info to flightradar for free. now they’re giving the receivers and antenna for free. that’s new to me. So they own the receivers and can turn them on and off and regulate access to their units.

You paid for the wingbits receiver you own it and it has a more open source platform that you can work with. we all want to recoup our costs quicker for the investment. I do find it interesting you can do what you described.

I”ve got the mgw310 and the wingbits side of things is so much more interesting and attractive than the boring geodnet side of things. I would think the wingbits data is more valuable. Theres little to see and do with geodnet. but with wingbits my tar1090 and graphs1090 are open all the time. Very nice detailed local flight data for 250 nm.

@Chadodesu Interesting. Just to clarify after looking into this you tell flightradar that you can provide a coverage area. You are giving flight radar free ads-b data from your mgw310 or wb200. In turn Flight radar does not need to provide you with a free ads-b receiver and antenna, cost savings to them and in return flight radar gives you a free subscription to flightradar24 valued at $500.00 a year. Ok, this makes sense.

However, You are now providing free ads-b data that wingbits is paying you for. In a way you are undermining wingbits. I get it but it hurts wingbits and helps flightradar24. Now, it would be nice if wingbits built a free/subscription package similar to flightradar 24 that was given to wingbits operators. All that supports wingbits to grow. This would lead to real revenue growth worldwide.

Honestly, i think wingbits could penalize an operator rewards for redirecting the data to another platform. Your maximum return and payback is the growth of wingbits. You have a proprietary hex and provide a service you are getting paid for. Just remember, wingbits is new to the game. Flight radar has been around for 5+ years and had plenty of time to program their platform. I think wingbits could be better but we need to support them.

Ask wingbits what could wingbits provide the antenna operators right now as an upsell to the product we are supporting. We are a test platform. We can also test their retail products free of charge. You have all proven that we are part of the sales force to expand this network. So we would be over 5000 operators of their product they will be selling to commercial/industry/private aircraft operators. We pay nothing and wingbits writes it off as a marketing cost, but has a 5000 subscribers or more base for all the antennas installed and operating. That’s a hard marketing point that can capture business and investment interest that wingbits has a use case.