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1/15/2020 9:23 PM
 

TAILBEACON COVER!

We just fabricarted a nice looking and really resiliant TAILBEACON COVER!

It is called the BEACON BLANKY or BEACON BONNET - still deciding, but very effective in keeping the TAILBEACON free of ice, snow, condensation, UV Rays, heat, cold, and bird droppings!

Not too shabby for something home-made!

Mike N714AJ

 

 

CLOSE UP - SUNBRELLA MATERIAL with VELCRO and WARNING flags! Dat's pretty nice!

 

 
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1/28/2020 8:37 AM
 

Just curious...

Has anyone heard of instances of "ADSB VIOLATIONS" yet by the FAA? I have not, and am surrounded by ADSB required airspace....perhaps pilots are being very compliant OR they just are not going after folks for this? 

We have been under the new decree for a month now...seems like all is going pretty well (at least around here in the NE USA.).

Mike N714AJ

 

 
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1/28/2020 8:29 PM
 

I don't know, Mike. But I do know that when I phoned the KRIC tower with a somewhat similar question about ADS-B traffic displays last week, I was told, "We see you ground to ground." I didn't believe that guy because in my case, "ground" is often the James River, and many times I'll fly without ever getting above 100 feet. AND I've found ADS-B traffic display sporadic at best. Capricious is more like what I see, and that's generous. But rather than argue with that guy I've been working my way up the chain of...  something by telephone, trying to find out what ADS-B really does about identifying traffic and whether it's as accurate as the FAA likes to say in public.
 

 
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1/30/2020 5:30 AM
 

If you don't have ADSB-out but you do have a Mode S transponder (not a common combo), ATC will have a unique ID from your transponder that can be cross-referenced to your tail number.  So, if you're flying with your transponder on in a place you are required to have ADSB-out, and you don't have ADSB-out, they can track you down and do something.

If you don't have ADSB-out but you do have a Mode C trasponder (a pretty common combo up until recently), and you don't identify yourself to ATC (no Flight Following or IFR flying), then even if you're flying with your tranponder on in a place you are required to have ADSB-out, you can't be uniquely identified.  ATC would have to watch you on radar go to someplace where they could identify you via other means, like call an airport manager or FBO and ask, "Who just landed?"  So someone who really wanted to flaunt the regs could probably get away with doing so for a while, if they were careful, though that would be pretty silly to do.

 
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1/30/2020 8:47 PM
 

Thanks Don and Cobra...good answers.

On that note, around where I fly, not ALL the towers have 'radar' to help with aircraft separation in the pattern. They are basically there to control aircraft on the ground and set priority to land on the active - other than that, you're on your own in the pattern.

Do you think they would at least have ADSB - IN on a screen or something to help with seperation, now that it is pretty much everywhere else?

Non-radar equipped towers can direct you to a place in the pattern but are NOT responsible for traffic separation (we had a mid-air here at Frederick, MD just a few months after the new tower opened as both helos and fixed wing were sent to the same corner of the pattern -- mutiple deaths - the surviving pilot put absolute trust in the controller and did not see the helo below him.)  I am thinking an ADSB screen like most of us would have now would really help a tower with separation. Perhaps this is standard equipment for all and we just do not know about it?  I scanned the FAA sites and could find nothing on what THEY are seeing in TRACON and in the tower with regards to ADSB.

Mike N714AJ, Carlisle, PA 

 
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