Avidyne’s TAS600 is a single, remote-mounted box with two antennas.

by Larry Anglisano

One of the hazards of covering cutting-edge avionics is that what’s hot one month, might very well be obsolete the next. That’s not quite the case with the traffic alerting gear we covered in the November 2005 issue of Aviation Consumer, but the market has definitely shifted in just a couple of months with Avidyne’s merger with Ryan International.

As we noted in the November report, real-time, active traffic alerting equipment is the best choice for pilots who are paranoid about swapping paint with another aircraft. It’s also so expensive that many owners simply won’t consider it. And at $20,000 or more for an installed system, we don’t blame…