AOPA Turbine Pilot Magazine - October 2019 - 96

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ADS-B

for a piston single should not cost you
$30,000.
Yesterday I received an email from
the owner of a 2002 Cessna 182T in
Southern California who received multiple ADS-B installation quotes for
$30,000-each specifying a Garmin
GTN 750 WAAS GPS navigator and a
Garmin GTX 345 ADS-B Out/In transponder. A Piper Cherokee owner in the
Southeast got a similar "ADS-B quote"
for $35,000-the market value of his airplane. Sure, the 750 and 345 are a great
combo, but not for owners who don't
need WAAS GPS navigation and aren't
interested in optional ADS-B In data.
Reputable shops should be able to offer
you rule-compliant ADS-B Out-only
options for $2,500 to $5,000 (ask about
the Appareo Stratus ESG, Garmin GTX
335 or GDL 82, and the uAvionix skyBeacon); avionics shops that engage in
predatory quoting for basic ADS-B Out
requests are disingenuous and should
not be patronized.

POLICY UPDATES

The FAA published a policy statement
July 3 clarifying that aircraft operators
encountering GPS interference will not
be held responsible for resulting GPS
performance failures that degrade ADS-B
performance. Many pilots have been asking about this. General aviation operators
are not required to conduct preflight service predictions for ADS-B because their
position sources are WAAS-compliant,
said Rune Duke, AOPA senior director
of airspace and air traffic. Certain commercial operators must do so before
flight, using the FAA's Service Availability
Prediction Tool.
A rule that took effect July 18 allows
some aircraft to turn off ADS-B Out equipment under certain circumstances. In
particular, the non-lead aircraft in a formation may turn off their transponders
and ADS-B. AOPA and other participants in a government/industry ADS-B
Formation Working Group had pressed
the FAA for an exception to current

regulations that require ADS-B- and transponder-equipped aircraft to operate the
equipment at all times. The change represents "a big win and a major step forward,"
Duke said.
The same rule allows aircraft flying
sensitive federal, state, and local security
and law enforcement missions to disable
their ADS-B Out transmissions.
Although another recent AOPA effort
clarified that pilots of aircraft equipped
with 978 MHz universal access transceiver (UAT) ADS-B Out systems can
use their UAT's anonymous mode when
the pilot has filed a VFR flight plan and
is not requesting air traffic services, privacy remains a concern of many pilots,
Duke said, citing the results of a recent
AOPA Aviation eBrief poll where half of
respondents indicated concern about privacy because their identification is being
transmitted over ADS-B.
The privacy problem is exacerbated
by websites that allow the tracking of
ADS-B Out-equipped aircraft, including

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