Carriage and Use of Notice of Final Rule Making ADS-B Avionics
The adoption of consistent, aligned technical standards for ADS-B equipment by regulators both here and overseas will encourage avionics manufacturers to design and produce equipment suitable for the different aviation sectors.
While a number of respondents made comments concerning possible mandatory fitment of ADS-B equipment, that issue is outside the scope of the proposals in the NPRM. Mandatory ADS-B avionics fitment will not be considered by CASA until such time that Airservices Australia makes a final decision on the replacement of its enroute radar systems.
Disposition
The final rules in CAO 20.18, CAO 82.1, CAO 82.3 and CAO 82.5 provide for the voluntary fitment of ADS-B avionics to specified standards in Australian registered aircraft and foreign-registered aircraft operating into Australia.
COMMENT 2: USE OF ADS-B EQUIPMENT – PILOT ACTIVATION and DEACTIVATION OF ADS-B TRANSMISSIONS
The NPRM proposed a requirement that ADS-B equipment must allow the pilot to activate and deactivate it during flight.
Several respondents stated that the proposed need for pilot deactivation of the ADS-B equipment in flight would also deactivate the aircraft transponder, thus affecting its detection by the traffic collision avoidance system of other aircraft. It was argued that the examples of the necessity for deactivation given in the NPRM relate only to certain emergencies where the equipment would in any case be shut down as part of standard emergency procedures for electrical load and/or bus shedding.
An airline respondent stated that it is not possible on any existing aircraft transponder equipment to disable only the ADS-B function, and to introduce such a function would cost about $20,000 to $40,000 per airline aircraft. The respondent added that if the requirement is to remove electrical power from the transponder completely as seems to be implied in the NPRM, then that is not possible on some airline aircraft types. The respondent added that if the requirement as proposed to ‘deactivate the ADS-B transmitting equipment’ is met by selecting the operational transponder to standby mode, then this needs to be made clear in the CAO.
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