Thursday, April 29, 2010

ADS-B a mistake or mis-understood?

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA--Finally the cat is out of the bag on ADS-B...the limitations of the 1090 MHz only version, how the UAT is perceived and the equipment cost to aircraft owners can be found on a blog published by AVweb by "Paying the price for ADS-B" Paul Sanchez. Read it and the comments.
Conspicuously missing are comments by Skip Nelson of ADS-B Technologies located here in Anchorage. He has the key to most of the questions posed, but obviously has a conflict of interest or he would be responding to the issues.
Nelson and members of his company have equipped aircraft and installed GBTs in China, have portable transceivers and are using transceivers and receivers both on the ground and in the air here at Merrill Field (MRI).