If you were expecting to operate an aircraft on the cheap and an ADS-B is prohibitively expensive in 10 years, please give me some of whatever you're on. It must be good if you're that delusional. Remember kids, if it flies/fucks/floats, rent it.
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FAA Mandates ADS-B to replace transponders by 2020
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I love ADS-B. I used to rent Cessna's with a color moving map/gps and ADS-B. It was a great tool to see all the little airplanes on the screen as you were buzzing around. Definitely an SA builder in an area like DC where lots of planes have it and pop up on the screen.
"Oh, 5 planes in the pattern at Easton? Three at Bay Bridge. . . Six more in the practice area. . . I'll just go head down here. . ."
Don't want to quibble with most of your points, but only about half the residents of the US pay taxes on their income. The rest are freeloading on exemptions and tax credits. So, for half the people, government services ARE free. Well, at least someone else is paying for them.
That's not what he said.
I guess "freeloading" wasn't referring to all the other taxes that are out there.
Freeloading off the federal government, at least. States and localities are the ones taxing sales and property.
....ANYWAY, ADS-B seems like the sort of thing we need to bring ATC into this century. If it's going to work, the majority of planes have to have it aboard. It can't be implemented by attrition, because a plane has such a long lifespan. Unfunded mandate? Maybe. What's the alternative, the gov't giving you a voucher to buy one?
....ANYWAY, ADS-B seems like the sort of thing we need to bring ATC into this century. If it's going to work, the majority of planes have to have it aboard. It can't be implemented by attrition, because a plane has such a long lifespan. Unfunded mandate? Maybe. What's the alternative, the gov't giving you a voucher to buy one?
When was the transponder mandated for use? Was there a fuss back then over it? Actually, there are still routes in bigger terminal areas for non transponder equipped aircraft. And how about non radar contact procedures for instrument flying? The way I see it, the system is already in place for non ADS-B aircraft. It's the same procedures that non transponder aircraft can use. You may say it's not practical, but if you want to be outside the box and not have the equipment to be plugged into this century's ATC, then you need to be ready operate outside that box without bitching.
They did it for people trading in old automobiles. With the money supposedly saved by ditching Loran, NDB's, and radar facilities, there should be some way to fund a rebate program.
Or you can pay to play??
Not that I am for it, but they (Fed Gov) also did it for people 'needing' HDTV antennas when the analog signals stopped. I think the ADS-B falls more inline with that perhaps.
Well said
Not even close. Fed did that to stop grandma from bitching when her analog tv signal went out "without warning", despite numerous ads notifying them. The voucher for boxes was a way to keep people on the TV system, which is used for emergency broadcasts, weather, news, etc. Not offering the boxes via gift cards would have been bloody murder. Aircraft owners are a select group. Soaking them for new tech isn't a new card for Fed. Don't expect that to change.
The switch to digital signals did not require any new antennas. You can still use the 50 year old rabbit ears to receive digital, HDTV broadcasts.