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CMD Flight Solutions .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 58
Cobham AvComm  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 45
DAC International  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 20
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FDS Avionics Corp. .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 36
FLYING Magazine .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 72
Garmin .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 3
Georgetown Instrument Services .  .  .  .  . 48
GlobalParts.aero  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 21
Gogo Business Aviation  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 51
L-3 Aviation Products .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 5
Latitude Technologies  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 33
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics .  .  . 1
Pacific Southwest Instruments .  .  .  .  .  . IBC
Precision Aviation Group .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 31
ProCal Laboratories .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 70
RDC Aerospace .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 70
Safran Engineering Services .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 49
Steiner Aviation .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 70
Tech-Aid Products .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 70
Temple Electronics Co.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 70
Tri-Star Technologies .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 25
Universal Avionics Systems Corp. .  .  .  . 37

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The research page also includes a list of all FAA-certified
equipment. Each type of ADS-B unit must be paired with a specific
position source, such as a Wide Area Augmentation System,
approved by the FAA for your make and model aircraft. Aircraft
owners can avoid problems by being certain the specific position
source being installed is approved to be paired with the ADS-B Out
unit being installed.
What can ADS-B do for me?
This is the key question most pilots want to answer as they
decide whether they need to equip. With the ADS-B ground
network operational across the country, pilots in equipped aircraft
have access to air traffic services that provide a new level of safety,
better situational awareness and more efficient search and rescue.
ADS-B transmissions include position, altitude, velocity, aircraft
number and other information.
ADS-B coverage is more extensive than radar, especially at
lower altitudes where general aviation aircraft often fly; it is also
much more precise. ADS-B uses GPS, which fixes position much
more accurately than radar. It also provides faster position update
rates of about once per second compared to about once every 12
seconds for radar. It takes a while for a rotating radar antenna to
circle back to the point where it first spotted an aircraft target to
make the next observation. ADS-B coverage also is often better
than radar coverage in the mountains.
If you want to know the details of how ADS-B Out and In
will work for you in your aircraft, and how they interact with the
ground infrastructure created by the FAA, visit www.faa.gov/go/
equipadsb.
New ADS-B compliant equipment search tool
The Equip ADS-B website also has a new ADS-B equipment
search tool that lets you enter the aircraft information to search
for ADS-B equipment either as separate components or part of a
complete installation solution.
Installation considerations
The installation section of the website is designed to help
general aviation aircraft owners and the repair shops. It provides
information on the hardware you need to put on your aircraft
to comply with the ADS-B rule and links to FAA field approval
guidance. The Installation Approval for ADS-B Out Systems
memo, available on the website, explains the FAA's policy
regarding installation of ADS-B Out systems in civil aircraft.
A key feature of this section is a list of the common ADS-B
installation problems you want to avoid. The FAA is placing special
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