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EU likely to require ADS-B out before U.S. mandate
At the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual November Convention in Washington, FAA director of surveillance and broadcast services Vincent Capezutto ad

At the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual November Convention in Washington, FAA director of surveillance and broadcast services Vincent Capezutto advised AIN that he expected that the final rule covering the mandated carriage of ADS-B out avionics will be published in April 2010. This is about 12 months later than the FAA had anticipated, but Capezutto believes that the original mandate date of Jan. 1, 2020, will most likely remain unchanged.

It will have been a long journey since September last year, when the FAA issued for public comment the original notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) calling for ADS-B installations by 2020. When the comment period ended in April this year, it was clear that the aviation industry–from ultralight owners to the major airlines–was virtually unanimous in opposing it.