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ADS-B

Going global
Satellite ADS-B might require equipment changes

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BLACK AIRCRAFT SYMBOLS represent many of the ADS-B mandates worldwide. The white

STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN

symbol indicates Canada's proposed mandate.

AS OF APRIL 1, nine months remain to
equip for aircraft owners who must comply with the FAA's Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast Out mandate. The
FAA will require ADS-B Out for most flights
after January 1, 2020, in airspace where a
transponder is required today.
And the technology is not coming only to
the United States. In many countries around
the world, mandates have been announced
or are working their way through the regulatory process. ADS-B mandates have
nearly doubled since we last looked at the
topic ("ADS-B: International and Diversity,"
January 2016 AOPA Pilot). And an innovation way over our heads-literally-might
cause complications for aircraft that have to
fly in some of this emerging ADS-B airspace.
In early January a SpaceX Falcon 9
rocket launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, California, delivered the final 10

Iridium NEXT satellites to low Earth orbit.
That launch completed the Iridium NEXT
constellation, with 66 operational satellites
in orbit. Each carries an Aireon ADS-B payload. Aireon is a joint space-based ADS-B
venture between Iridium Communications,
Nav Canada, the Irish Aviation Authority,
Italian air navigation service provider Enav,
and Naviair-which provides air navigation
services in Denmark, Greenland, and the
Faroe Islands. Nav Canada is the partnership's lead air navigation service provider.
On February 7, Aireon formally received
control of the final six payloads from Iridium.
Aireon's system was scheduled to go live in
the first quarter of 2019, beginning with operational trials over the North Atlantic.
Those satellites are a potential rub. Nav
Canada's proposed mandate requires antenna
diversity-ADS-B antennas on both the bottom and top of the aircraft-to support
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