Garmin announced this morning (August 14) it has received certification for its runway occupancy awareness (ROA) software dubbed Surface Indications and Alert (SURF-IA). The software leverages ADS-B traffic information to call out potential runway incursions involving airborne traffic, aircraft on the ground, and ground vehicles. Textron Aviation received FAA certification for the product installed on a G1000 NXi-equipped Cessna Caravan.
This is a test comment of Avwebās ānewā comment section.
I do NOT like it ā¦ itās too onerous and I think itās going to drive all or most the previous commenters away. Avweb will likely lose many people due to this change?
BIG mistake !!! The old system was usable to the masses; this setup ā¦ NOT so much.
Meanwhile ā¦ good on Garmin for another fine improvement to their designs.
I guess it a good thing, Garmin that is. However glass in cockpits are getting more and more clutteredā¦and confusing if looking for something quickly. AVWeb new lookā¦I donāt know. Too new I guess. Itās about comfort. For now, very uncomfortable. Guess Iāll get use to itā¦maybe. It seems very commercial in appearance. Iām still grumpy about Google changing their news format long ago. But, Iām not a good guy to try new stuff on actually.
Is this then a charge for item? Subscription fees are growing rather rapidly! Will they make it a part of a package? Is it cost per equipment, per aircraft? Lotās of data unknown.
As for the new website formatting, I am not a fan. Donāt mind change for the better, not change for changeās sake. Reminds me of the change in store layouts- you have to walk around in circles to find your way out of a mall store. Old format allowed me to see the current new stories and ignore those I previously viewed.
My $0.02
So this is a step. But it doesnāt address aircraft that arenāt on ADS-B or an equivalent datalink for whatever reason - packet collisions, equipment failures, donāt have ADS-B out, etc. For autonomous aircraft in DoD, we are considering onboard sensors that can be used to independently do detections among other things that autonomous aircraft would need to do. And some sensors arenāt what you would normally think. Imagine a system that can listen to radios calls and infer that a problem is in the making like the runway incursion at Austin between Southwest and FedEx.