AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2020 - 86

P&E

ADS-B

ADAPT (see "ADS-B: ADAPTing to 2020,"
December 2019 AOPA Pilot). It's based
on the Service Availability Prediction
Tool (SAPT). AOPA previewed the tool
in October. As soon as the interface is
finalized, AOPA will publish an up-todate ADAPT fact sheet. If, after January
1, 2020, you need to request an airspace
authorization, find that document on the
AOPA website for step-by-step guidance
through the process.
FAA automation will have the ability
to detect non-ADS-B-equipped aircraft
in ADS-B rule airspace, and a pilot
caught flying in the airspace without the
required equipment could encounter
enforcement action.
AIRCRAFT EQUIPPED WITH ADS-B OUT

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If you haven't requested an FAA Public
ADS-B Performance Report on your
installation, do that today! Because of
the nature of ADS-B, the ground test
equipment at your avionics shop can't
test every operational parameter. You

don't need to make a special flight for
this, either-simply request a report
after any flight, even if it was several weeks ago. You do not need to
fly in ADS-B rule airspace (that was a
requirement only for FAA ADS-B rebate
validation), or for any minimum amount
of time-just fly within range of an FAA
ground station.
The process is simple. Go to the FAA's
webpage for the report (adsbperformance.
faa.gov/paprrequest.aspx), and enter your
N number, email address, the date of a
recent flight, and answer a few questions
about your ADS-B hardware.
Although there is no requirement for
you to do so, AOPA recommends that you
obtain a performance report at least once
each year-more often if you like. It's the
only way to be absolutely sure your system is working properly and is correctly
configured. Print it out, and slip it into
your airframe logbook. This will serve as a
record that as of the date of the flight, your
hardware met performance requirements.

The FAA monitors ADS-B performance and will reach out to aircraft
owners when problems are detected. As
of November 1, 2019, 8,187 U.S.-registered
aircraft-almost 8 percent of the ADS-B
Out-equipped fleet-had some type of
ADS-B performance problem. Each of
these represents a technical violation of
the rules, and the FAA is actively contacting owners of aircraft with noncompliant
installations, starting with those that
pose the greatest problems to the system.
These efforts are certain to continue in
2020.
The FAA is aware that aerobatic
flight is a challenge for ADS-B, and has
said there will be no penalties for ADS-B
performance failures during aerobatic
flight-although your ADS-B is expected
to operate properly whenever the aircraft
is in nonaerobatic flight. FAR 91.225(f )
states that "each person operating an
aircraft equipped with ADS-B Out must
operate this equipment in the transmit
mode at all times." The only exception

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