Avidyne's MLX770 provides pilots with two-way text messaging support

by Darren Murph posted Sep 2nd 2008 at 8:29AM

It's not that texting from planes is currently impossible, it's just not terribly reliable. Thanks to Avidyne's Q4-bound MLX770, however, all that is about to change. The two-way datalink receiver will not only enable pilots to have access to the radar mosaic for most of the world along with weather conditions, but it will add support for text messaging right from the MFD. And we're not talking about CPLDC -- we're talking bona fide SMS. To keep pilots from chatting away too much unnecessarily, the system will limit messages to 32 characters, and beyond that, each message sent will run between $1 and $2. And to think, we actually have the nerve to gripe about $0.20 texts...

[Via FlightGlobal]

Filed under: Messaging, Misc

Tags: aircraft, airplane, aviation, Avidyne, MLX770, pilot, sms, text messages, text messaging, texting, TextMessages, TextMessaging

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LennyM @ Sep 8th 2008 4:09AM

I just hope it won't cause the slight yet very annoying static in my headset like most phones do when they send/receive texts. It's a bitch to be in a C172 in Bravo airspace and not hear the controller because you forgot to turn off your phone and your friend wants to know what you're doing.