Fri, Nov 30, 2007
As noted in our Aero-TV coverage from Oshkosh 2007 (see
video attached below), FAA administrator Marion Blakey
mandated that ADS-B will be the industry standard for traffic
awareness by 2020.
This may sound like it's a long ways off, but PCAvionics,
publisher of MountainScope moving-map software, has been working
with the FAA Capstone program since 2003 to develop display systems
for ADS-B. Mountainscope has been ADS-B compatible for four years,
overlaying traffic and weather on MountainScope's industry-leading
terrain awareness maps.
Partnering with ADS-B Technologies (www.ads-b.com),
PCAvionics has supplied over 120 ADS-B cockpit display tablets to
flight schools in China. Since program inception, these schools
have logged over 250,000 hours with ADS-B, 100,000 of which were
logged using MountainScope displays. Several other countries are in
the process of setting up similar systems. This makes MountainScope
the proven leader in portable ADS-B cockpit displays worldwide.
PCAvionics tells ANN that it continues to advance its ADS-B
mapping technology by working with ADS-B Technologies and the North
Carolina DOT to refine and enhance the display. NCDOT started a
program to install ADS-B ground stations that has since spread to
cover the entire US east coast. That makes ADS-B a current, viable
solution for traffic and weather in that part of the country.
The FAA has committed to completing a nationwide ADS-B
infrastructure by 2010, with aircraft equipage required by
2020.
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