Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast(ADS-B) Is an Acronym For

ADS-B Notes

ADS-B • Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is an acronym for: • Automatic - It's always ON and requires no identing or interogation • Dependent - It depends on an accurate GNSS signal for position data and other aircraft being properly equipped. • Surveillance - It provides "Radar-like" surveillance services, much like RADAR • Broadcast - It continuously broadcasts aircraft position and other data to any aircraft, or ground station equipped to receive ADS-B

Mandate, Jan 1, 2020 for ADS-B OUT ADS-B OUT required if you operate in: • Class A airspace • Class B airspace (within veil) • In & Above Class C airspace • Above 10,000’ MSL (excludes airspace below 2,500 AGL) ADS-B IN allows the pilot to receive a weather and traffic display in the cockpit. The display can be either superimposed on a Garmin 430/530 screen, or on an iPad.

ADS-B Progress: http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/flashMap/index.cfm

ADS-B IN traffic Every time your ADS-B transponder, whether it’s a 1090 MHz Extended Squitter transponder or a 978 MHz UAT sends a position report to an ADS-B ground station, that position report prompts the ground station to send you traffic information services (TIS-B) - a customized traffic package, called a “Hockey Puck”. In this “Hockey Puck”, there will be all the traffic around you – aircraft that are ADS-B equipped, and those equipped with only with Mode C. You just need to be ADS-B in equipped to see this traffic package.

What will you need to be ADS-B compliant? A panel mounted WAAS GPS, so ATC can read your position, vector, altitude and speed. If you have either a Garmin 430 or a 530 that are non-WAAS, the upgrade to WAAS will cost: $3,200 + 2 hours to install the WAAS antennae. Some UATs (Universal Access Tranceivers) have a built in WAAS GPS – so if you install a UAT with GPS, you will not need a panel mounted WAAS GPS.

ADS-B “in” is broadcast on the 987MHz band. Benefits that you can receive: • METARs & TAFs • Non-Routine Aviation Weather Reports (SPECI or Special Report) • NEXRAD • Both Distant and Flight Data Center (FDC) NOTAMs • AIRMETs and SIGMETs, including Convective SIGMETs • Special use Airspace (SUA) status • Temp Flight Restrictions (TFR) • Winds and temps aloft • PIREPS Extended Squitter Transponders – ADS-B Out only (transmit position, etc.) • GTX 330ES transponder - $4,800 • Honeywell/Bendix King KT74. It’s a plug in replacement for the King 76a or 76c and the Garmin 327 transponders. • $3,000 + 1 hour to install • UATs – ADS-B In (display weather and traffic) and Out (transmit position, etc.) Garmin GDL 88 - four models which will allow you to display the weather on your GPS display:  Basic, $4000  Diversity with top and bottom antenna, $4,500  Standard with WAAS, $5,500  Diversity with WAAS, $6,000 NavWorx ADS600-B Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) ($2,595 (Includes a WAAS GPS) Aspen Avionics’ ATX200 (requires a Multi-functional display. The ATX200 costs $4,000 ADS-B IN portable receivers Stratus 1 – ($700). – ForeFlight and iPad Only Stratus 2 (second generation) ($900) ForeFlight and iPad Only Dual XGPS170 ($700) powers: • AOPA FlyQ EFB, • Avilution (Android app), • Bendix King myWingMan, • eKneeboard, • Flight Guide iEFB, • Naviator (Android app), • WingX Pro7, • EFIS models from GRT Avionics. Garmin GDL 39 powers the Garmin Pilot app, ($700). It also supports portable Garmin GPS units like the aera and GPSMap.

Where do you fly? Below 18,000 feet or in Class A airspace - FL180 and above Within a Class B Veil – or plan to stay away from Class B In or above Class C airspace – or plan to stay away from Class C At or above 10,000 feet MSL – or no higher than 9,500 feet MSL No higher than 2,500 feet AGL in mountainous areas Outside the USA – or stay in the USA