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ForeFlight Sentry HHHHH
Manufacturer Flywithsentry.com/flyer
Buy it for €578 from skyfox.com in Germany or $499 from Sporty’s USA
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he merging world of Electronic Conspicuity is fast evolving its own laws, one of which states that all new pieces of equipment should offer something valuable without allowing the user to meet every single need. In this respect the Sentry from ForeFlight delivers. Sentry is a dual band ADS-B receiver that also packs a WAAS GPS, a carbon monoxide detector, a back-up attitude source (AHRS) and a 12-hour battery in a small box that you can easily fit to your windscreen with the supplied mount. What it doesn’t do is work with anything either than ForeFlight, pick up and decode FLARM or PilotAware, and most importantly for some, it isn’t a CAP1391 device for emitting ADS-B signals. If you are not thinking that it is pointless because of that, you’d be wrong (more on why later), but to find out just how it performs we took it flying from Wiltshire to Blackpool. The first thing that strikes you about
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the Sentry is just how much it looks like a SkyEcho 2. To be clear it isn’t a SkyEcho 2 but it is made for ForeFlight
by uAvionix, the people behind the SkyEcho, which is why the packaging and form factor are very similar. Like
