Originally published at: Participate in Purdue Survey on Electronic Conspicuity Technology for Aircraft
Purdue University’s Dr. Damon Lercel and Hailey Manuel invite pilots and aircraft owners to share views on electronic conspicuity technology and its role in airspace safety.
I would like a clear technical explanation for why the FAA assumes that these UAV systems cannot incorporate adequate see and avoid technology that now suggests to them it is in any way acceptable to abandon rights of way developed over a millennium of maritime and admiralty rights of way rules that have served us well in aviation. A Tesla in autonomous driving mode at 73 kts on a public highway can for the most part avoid traffic in a far more chaotic environment. A police speed gun using radar/lidar can discriminate in time to get a speeding ticket. The present proposal to abandon see and avoid responsibilities and abandon the promise the FAA made to us when they mandated ADSB equipage is completely unacceptable. The claim that the UAVs will overwhelm the inadequate ADSB infrastructure they promised they would build out is easily solvable without solving it on the backs of Part 23 aircraft operators.
A possible alternative solution would be to give the UAS folks a set of frequencies and have the FAA do what it promised: place sufficient ground receivers (possibly at the expense of the commercial delivery companies) to recieve and channel landline/alternative rf based signals to the ADSB network to permit identification on the present ads-b equipment installed in aircraft, such as the Lynx or Garmin systems.
The claim that the uavs will overwhelm the ADSB system is even more alarming. Is the density of these UAVs so high that not only can they not avoid fixed, charted obstructions, they will not be able to avoid each other. See and avoid is required of us, even in IMC and the rights of way are required when in VMC conditions. There is no excuse for these devices cannot be equipped with sufficient computer power and multi-spectral sensors to allow them to avoid themselves and more importantly, us.
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