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Re:Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones by pmorici on Friday July 24, 2015 @06:16PM (#9945542)
Hobby ADS-B receivers are super cheap is there any reason an ADS-B transmitter for a drone couldn't also be made cheaply?
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Re:Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones by hn9780470248775 on Friday July 24, 2015 @06:45PM (#9945697)
1. For ADS-B out, you, of course, need all the requisite sensors (GPS, etc).

2. The correctness of ADS-B data protects human life. Naturally there will be much stricter requirements (certification of reliability) on something that produces this data and introduces it to the system, than for a "just for fun" receiver.

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