December 9, 2003: AOPA Demonstrates ADS-B to CAP

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On this date, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) demonstrated a new tracking technology to CAP brass.

An excerpt from the AOPA Online.

AOPA Senior Director of Advanced Technology Randy Kenagy took CAP Executive Director Col. Al Allenback (USAF-Ret.) and Director of Operations Lt. Col. John Salvador (USAF-Ret.) for a demonstration flight in an aircraft equipped for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, or ADS-B.

ADS-B technology transmits an aircraft's GPS-derived position, altitude, airspeed, and projected track via datalink to other aircraft similarly equipped and to ground stations. The datalink capabilities also allow ground stations to uplink information about transponder-equipped non-ADS-B aircraft using the FAA's traffic information system-broadcast (TIS-B) system, as well as both textual and graphical weather data via the flight information system-broadcast (FIS-B) system.

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