industry Installations slowly gaining momentum - but the pace is far behind ADS-B PROGRESS T he countdown continues, at T minus 37 months and counting. Then the ADS-B Out deadline arrives, three years from Jan. 1 on New Year's Day, 2020. The Federal Aviation Administration finalized its rules mandating ADS-B Out in May 2010, more than six years ago. Now well past the halfway point, the deadline both looms large and still appears as a drop-dead cutoff nearly seven years later. Has the community heeded the mandate and made progress enough to reduce the prospects of an 11th-hour rush to install required systems by Dec. 31, 2019? S T O R Y D A V E 14 avionics news * november 2016 B Y H I G D O N