AOPA Pilot Magazine - September 2013 - 80

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component of NextGen) information using
a Stratus receiver and an iPad app, which
depicted several TFRs—but none over the
Lansing airport.
Mercer accepts responsibility for his
error. He said his 72-page DUATS briefing included the notam but he misread it,
because the description for the TFR’s outer
ring was interrupted by a page break—and
the iPad image looked exactly like what he
expected from the misinterpreted briefing.
He had been in Purdue, Indiana, and
did not file an IFR flight plan for the short,
72-nm hop to Lansing. “I almost never fly
VFR, but for that short leg, I did not file
IFR. There’s a lesson for me there.”
Mercer filed a NASA Aviation Safety
Reporting System form (see “Pilot Counsel:
ASRS,” page 24) right away and, with an
AOPA Legal Services plan representative,
talked with an officer from the DuPage
FSDO. “He didn’t care at all about the
FIS-B display. They were uninterested in
it because it was advisory only.” The FAA’s
current Aeronautical Information Manual
describes ADS-B In data as “advisory
services” and FIS-B products as “for information only.”

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The FAA found that while the textual
information was complete, graphical depictions of TFRs were not always uplinked. If
graphics were not available when a TFR
was issued, and they were added manually
later, the database was not updated with
the graphical information. In February,
the FIS-B software was modified to update
the TFR database when TFR content is
updated with graphical information.
Other problems have not been as dramatic. For example, many automated
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