Business Aviation Mandates Made Easy
Pilots all over the world are probably sick of hearing that “ADS-B is coming,” but the fact is that some countries already require ADS-B capability, and other countries’ deadlines are rapidly approaching. ADS-B equipage needs to remain prominent in pilots’ consciousness because avionics shops need time to certify ADS-B out installations and time to complete the installations. A rough estimate by Cessna’s product support organization, just for the U.S. fleet, calculates that from now until the U.S. mandate begins on Jan. 1, 2020, about 20,000 ADS-B installations will need to be done per year, which equates to 58 per day or 2.4 per hour. This assumes that 90 percent of the general aviation fleet will become compliant, although that isn’t a given, because some small airplanes could avoid ADS-B airspace and others–such as geriatric business jets–will simply be scrapped.
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