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Works well on ground at airport

Does not pick up on my Mooney cruise well. Notifies to late on converging traffic.

I always have it own when landing or taking off. Better than nothing but not an excuse for not using visual and audio clues.

Great little Gizmo that's all about See and Avoid!

Small, convenient, easy to put in the plane, good battery life, easy to use right out of the box. Also good bright LED and integrated sound to your headset. Good piece of mind with some

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Small and very useful

Very nice, small, and portable - fits in every flight bag. Very easy to use. Alert-Beep is loud enough to be heard even without hooking up the headset. Long battery life on NiMH batteries (I run it without any cables, which makes using it even easier and lowers the threshold to bring it along. All I bring along is the unit and a set of spare batteries). Very affordable compared to XRX model at about a third of the latter's price. Very useful even when flying under IFR or flight following to double check and follow the controller's traffic alerts. Also very useful on low use airfields. Although it does not indicate direction (by design), it is still a very useful aid in visually identifying traffic, because position can be estimated from closure rate, altitude (hemispherical rule), distance, etc.
The durability of the unit seems ok. It feels solid. It endures prolonged sunlight and heat with no problems.
I love this little box and will always have it with me. It is amazing how much more traffic I am able to see with this unit than without it.

The unit comes with very useful anti-slip rubber feet and Velcro, which are both useful. For rental aircraft, however, I wish it also came with some kind of mounting bracket to clip it to the glareshield, because I am reluctant to glue Velcro to all the glareshields in the FBO's fleet.

The manual states a minimum distance the unit should be mounted from the magnetic compass. This distance is not conservative enough. We mounted the unit about 5-6 inches from the compass and it still deflected it 5-10 degrees. I recommend to mount it well clear of the compass. At least 12 or more inches to be safe.

Not really a Con, but something to be aware of: All traffic alert systems have the problem that they cannot pick up all the traffic, mostly because some pilots choose not to operate a transponder or for lack of interrogator coverage at low altitudes (e.g. helicopters or Ag airplanes). I was in both of these situations a couple of times. So visual scanning is still a must.

However, due to the portable nature of the unit, it also sometimes has problems picking up some lower-flying small aircraft (possibly with dirty transponder antennas and weak emitters) directly below your own aircraft. These kinds of aircraft (having their transponder antennas on their bellies) emit very weak signals directly upward. Also, because this unit usually sits on the glareshield, it's reception downward is attenuated by your own aircraft's fuselage. In practice, however, such traffic is usually not a factor (flying far below you) and if it does get closer, its signal will eventually be strong enough to be picked up.

None that I could use

Constant false positives and continuous change in proximity and altitude. Bad info is worse than no info.

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works as advertised

none. only 3 stars for durability and reliability due to only using it twice so far

It worked. During a flight yesterday i got an alert 200 feet above me, so i scanned and found the target crossing above me from right to left. very reassuring to have this device along.

works as advertised. Tried it out on a road trip and was suprised to see that it was reliable. Used it on the last 2 flights (1.2 and 2.7). Found traffic without an issue (one flight was in a TIS equiped) and it kept up with the system.
Would recommend this product.

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Small device that works.

Very compact, easy to see, sits securely on glare shield, helps improve awareness of other aircraft in the area, runs on AA batteries or DC adapter. Simple to use, can easily use in different aircraft as no installation required.

Does not indicate location of other aircraft, just the range and relative height to your position.

Affordable piece of safety equipment

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Still in the learning stage with the unit. So far so good.

I've only used it a few times, but it seems to work as advertised.

Non so far.

Since I live less than 2 miles from a major airport I tried the unit for a couple of days on the ground before installing it in my plane. I can see airplanes on approach from my window and the unit never missed a single one.

The size is perfect. Velcro makes the attaching/removal easy and quick. For the money, a good value to help increase safety to see and avoid.

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Seems to be accurate and work as advertised.

Durability remains to be seen.

Gives me a peace of mind and aids in looking for traffic.

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Excellent unit with some expected limitations.

I wish the price was a little lower.

I've flown with it a couple times now and it works as advertised. I understand that passive devices may not see all traffic , but the MRXA provides useful data in the cockpit, e.g. It was reassuring yesterday when ATC called traffic closing 1,000-ft below me and the unit confirmed their call. I never saw the other plane, but watched it converge and depart 1,000-ft below me on the unit. Very nice.

I haven't had it long enough to give it a reliability rating. With regard to durability it will need to be treated with respect; especially the antenna connection. This is true of most avionics. I'm looking for hard shell case for my flight bag.

Joe

None so far. It's what I expected.

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Small and easy to fit in my flight bag. Display is easy to read, and warning beeps are loud enough to hear in the cockpit. Easy to use and set different ranges for warnings. Works as advertised picking up many planes I would not have seen on my own.

Rubber "feet" only kept the unit still for me near the center of the glare shield, which is closer than the recommended 2' from the magnetic compass. The curve of the glare shield near the edge of the cockpit was too large for the rubber feet to work. First unit did not work and I had to return it.

The first unit I received worked for about 10 minutes and then stopped picking up anything. I knew it was not working when I returned to my home airport and it did not pick up any of the other planes in the traffic pattern. Sporty's swapped out the unit with no hassle, and the second one works great. I flew with it the first time this weekend over a 50 NM course and there was rarely a time that it was not picking up other aircraft. I do wish it had an indicator to tell you which direction to look for the aircraft, but the next higher model does that. The unit had me scanning for planes it could detect that were still outside of my visual range. I definitely saw planes, though not a threat, that I would not have seen otherwise. I did not rate durability or reliability since I've only had the unit a couple of weeks and flown with it once.

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Works easily out of the box with no complicated setup. It is small and doesn't take up a lot of cockpit area. Has connections for headsets, so the alarm is audible in the noisiest of environments. Passengers enjoy watching it in action and looking for traffic when it alerts, which increases the safety value of it.

The display is unreadable in direct sunlight, however it can be mounted in the panel with included wiring and antenna. The unit tells you when another aircraft is in your area, but doesn't tell you the direction, or where the aircraft is.

For the money, this is a great piece of equipment to have in the cockpit. A quick glance tells you when something is in your airspace, and you can start looking for traffic.

Works like magic. Will never fly wih out it.

Looks cheap for the high price. Probably would damage easily.

Looks like it could be sold for less money thus more available to careful buyers.

Very easy to set up and use, and also seemed very accurate in giving altitude and range of nearby aircraft. I have TIS aboard my aircraft, and the Zaon was almost always in sync with the TIS readout.

Not having direction is a negative, but you can quickly figure out if the target is approaching or receding, and scan to find the target.

This product is well worth the money if you are concerned about traffic issues and do not have TIS or other traffic avoidance products in your aircraft. It pretty much works anywhere there is radar coverage and with any airplane with a transponder.