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Embry-Riddle launches ADS-B technology trial
By this summer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University expects that the flight-training fleets at its Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz.

By this summer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University expects that the flight-training fleets at its Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz. campuses will be fully equipped with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) avionics. Between 40 and 50 aircraft–primarily Cessna 172s and Piper Seminoles–at each location will receive ADS-B installations.

The university’s move is a major initiative under the FAA’s Safe Flight 21 program (AIN, April, page 75) and is coupled with the agency’s provision of Sensis-built ADS-B ground stations, installations of which are currently under way.