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EAA Proposes ADS-B Solution for Light-Sport Aircraft
EAA to FAA: ADS-B Mandate Fraught With Hurdles for GA
Cost, Compliance, Lack of Benefits Preventing Adoption
EAA Vice President of Advocacy and Safety, Sean Elliott, told the FAA on Oct. 28 that while the recreational aviation community is willing to work toward a modernization of the national airspace system, mandated ADS-B compliance is still fraught with too many hurdles to motivate general aviation aircraft owners to install the costly equipment.
Speaking at an FAA-sponsored “call to action” summit on ADS-B and NextGen in Washington, D.C., Elliott emphasized that the low installation rate in GA aircraft thus far–only about 6,200 aircraft out of 157,000 in the fleet––is due to a dubious cost/benefit ratio for aircraft owners. The FAA has mandated that ADS-B be installed in those aircraft by 2020 as a cornerstone of the NextGen system.
NBAA Airs Member Concerns at FAA’s ADS-B “Call to Action” Summit
Doug Carr, NBAA’s vice president of regulatory and international affairs, shared Member Companies’ concerns about the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) system at the FAA’s “Call to Action” summit, held Oct. 28 in Washington, DC. The meeting attracted more than 100 representatives from government and industry organizations.
The FAA’s goal for the summit was to work with industry representatives to identify and overcome the barriers to operators equipping with ADS-B Out avionics by the Jan. 1, 2020 deadline.
Carr expressed concerns about the challenges of maintaining privacy on ADS-B Out equipped aircraft, while other industry representatives relayed a variety of concerns of aircraft owners and operators, including questions regarding the overall benefit of ADS-B.