Originally published at: NTSB Chair Slams FAA Safety Culture in Senate Hearing
Lawmakers examine equipage requirements, coordination and agency response following NTSB DCA findings.
I wonder if Ms Homendy has ever sat in on an airliner during an approach to landing. Or if she has ever flown in a GA airplane. Her insistence on ADS-B in makes me think she has no working experience with ADS-B in. I have been told she is not even a pilot either. This “inexpensive “ ADS-B in receivers would end up much more expensive after the FAA makes them required to be certified per any TSO, as they did with ADS-B out. Since there are 2 ADS-B out frequencies, does that mean you would have to get 2 receivers to pick up both frequencies?
No. The ground stations re-broadcast all traffic on both frequencies (although weather via FIS-B is only on 978 UAT since 1090ES is just a piggyback on the Mode C transponder). But many ADS-B transceivers receive both frequencies already anyway.
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