AOPA's Randy Kenagy On ADS-B

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has been watching very carefully FAA plans for the next big thing in controlling the national airspace. And this is it: Automatic Dependant Survelliance-Broadcast, or ADS-B. In fact, the agency has recently stated it hopes to change over to the new GPS-based system by 2014.

Randy Kenagy is the AOPA's senior director of technology services. He's spent the past eight years working with the FAA on implementation of ADS-B, and he says the new system could hold significant potential benefits in the  to general aviation pilots, including much greater situational awareness.

Randy says there are some issues, however... for one, AOPA is concerned that general aviation pilots won't be given enough time to make what -- at today's prices -- could be a very pricey changeover to the new equipment necessary for ADS-B. And what about a backup system?

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