industry ADS-B OUT: COMPLIANT OPTIONS ABOUND Pairing aircraft and their owners with approved solutions S T O R Y B Y D A V E Time changes everything. Complaints started flowing across the aviation landscape before the Federal Aviation Administration published its mandate requiring most aircraft to equip with a new air traffic surveillance technology back in May 2010. That's when the agency published its final rule mandating that most aircraft equip with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out, or ADS-B Out, by Jan. 1, 2020. Pilots and aircraft owners fretted about the paucity and expense of the options then available to satisfy H I G D O N the mandate. Pilots also expressed significant discontentment at the absence of any true tangible benefits for the typical general aviation operator; their feelings echoed the position of the airline industry, as well. The complaints generally held merit, particularly in the first couple of years after the rule's issuance. But the rule was set; it was here to stay. A smaller group of owners and operators saw potential merit in ADS-B Out in the form of trafficawareness tools and in-cockpit weather data. But to benefit from those situational awareness tools, the WAAS GPS navigation position sources for ADS-B Out from Avidyne (left), Garmin (center) and BendixKing 28 avionics news * november 2016