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With the ADS-B Out mandate a week away, there are still scores of aircraft not yet equipped—meaning they can’t legally fly in “rule” airspace after Jan. 1 without a waiver. Turns out, the waiver, part of the FAA’s ADS-B Deviation Authorization Preflight Tool (ADAPT) program, isn’t hard to get. But it is online only, so […]

The FAA has requested information from pilots and maintenance personnel in connection with reported failures of the FreeFlight Systems FDL-987-XVR ADS-B transceiver. The FAA is seeking user feedback and is not proposing ameliorative action yet. According to the FAA, “We have received reports of latent failures of FreeFlight model FDL-978-XVR ADS-B units. Troubleshooting determined that […]

The uAvionix booths at this year’s Airventure were packed layers deep with last-minute ADS-B buyers, while the 2020 mandate is T-minus 28 weeks. But high on the list of ADS-B equipage concerns is the developing ADS-B space-based Aireon tech in Canada (and the U.S. aircraft that will fly there), which looks to require diversity systems, […]

The Desanctification of AoA We installed an AOA called a “Lift Reserve Indicator” in our missionary C182. It’s purpose was exactly what the name implied…at any given airspeed, weight, bank angle, and G load, you knew how close you were to a stall far more precisely than indicated airspeed, sound, feel, buffet, etc. The instructions […]