Apr 2006

• NTSB calls on FAA to ensure that the national infrastructure for the ADS-B in the Gulf of Mexico is operational by fiscal year 2010 to enable radar-like tracking of helicoptor traffic. (pdf)

Mar 2006

• Garmin press release, "Garmin’s® GMX 200™ Gives Advanced Situational Awareness" (pdf)

  Anchorage Daily News article, "Air-navigation system tested in Alaska goes to China" by Sarana Schell.

• Webwire article, "UPS Press Release: UPS Pushing its Fleet of Jets Into Digital Information Age"

Feb 2006

• ATW Daily News article, "SITA and Airservices Australia announced an alliance to offer ADS-B services across Australia's entire upper-level airspace by early 2007... [and an] ADS-B trial in Indonesia."

• Sensis Corporation announced that it has developed security and efficiency enhancements to ADS-B protocols. [Sensis Press Release (pdf)]

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University news release "Embry-Riddle Fleet First to Combine Glass Cockpit and ADS-B."

• FAA provides Broadcast Services from an ADS-B ground stations located at State College, PA and the 30th Street helipad in New York City, bringing the number of stations to 51.

Jan 2006

• AOPA Pilot Magazine President's Position titled, "ADS-B" by Phil Boyer.

• FAA provides Broadcast Services from five additional ADS-B ground stations located at the following locations:

  • Athens, Ohio
  • Cumberland, MD
  • Asheville, NC
  • Silva, NC
  • Stafford, VA

  These sites brings the number of operational ground stations in to 49.

Dec 2005

• The Australian article, "Santa cleared for Aussie Airspace."

• Avionics Magazine article (December 15, 2005), "Cost of ADS-B: A First take" by Charlotte Adams (not Internet accessible) .

Nov 2005

• FlightInternational.com article, "SafeRoute offers big advances in efficient movements" by Steve Nichols.

• Avionics Magazine Editor's Note, "ADS-B: Its Time Has Come" by David Jensen.

• Aviation Week article, "FAA, JPDO To Go Nationwide With ADS-B" by David Hughes.

• FlightInternational.com article, "China starts to install ADS-B ground stations" by Brendan Sobie.

• Aero-News.net article, "China Flips the Switch on ADS-B, Alaskan Company Smiles" by Rob Stapleton.

• Aviation International News article, "FAA Initiates Cost Study of Nationwide ADS-B " by Andrew Wood.

Oct 2005

• AOPA Pilot Magazine article, "ADS-B: The Future Is Now" by Charles H. Stites. Note: this article is accessible by AOPA members only.

• Flying Magazine article, "Mysteries of ADS-B" by Tom Benenson.

• New Aviation Safety System Coming to Pennsylvania; Statewide Rollout of [ADS-B] Technology Expected by 2009. [PennDOT Press Release]

• University Park Airport to benefit from new aviation safety system. [Penn State Live Web site]

Sept 2005

• FAA provides Broadcast Services from ADS-B ground stations located at Macon, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. These two sites begin to fill the remaining gap of continuous coverage along the East Coast of the United States and brings the number of operational ground stations in to 41.

August 2005

• Rockwell Collins Press Release "Rockwell Collins Receives ADS-B OK For TDR-94/94D Transponder"

July 2005

• Broadcast Services now available from ADS-B ground stations located at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and Cleveland, Ohio.

• The FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (pdf) for the aircraft equipped an ADS-B transceiver and older marine radios. Aircraft equipped with non-aviation radios may interfere with the GPS signal used by the ADS-B system. This situation applies mainly to aircraft operating in Alaska.

June 2005

• UPS and ACSS Join to Develop and Implement ADS-B Applications Allowing Continuous Descent Arrivals (CDA) in High Density Traffic Situations. [ACSS Press Release | CDA Executive Summary (pdf)]

May 2005

• AVweb article, "ADS-B Now Available For East-Coast Pilots."

• AOPA Online article, "ADS-B Traffic and Weather Data Available on East Coast."

April 2005

• FAA issues Request For Information (RFI) on NAS-wide Flight Information Services-Broadcast (FIS-B) Weather Data Source

• FAA Capstone Program To Remotely Monitor ADS-B Transceivers with Sensis Remote Control and Monitoring System. [Sensis Press Release]

• The FAA has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) on the Initial Operation of ADS-B and other Broadcast Services (i.e., TIS-B and FIS-B) in the NAS.

• The FAA’s Capstone Project Phase II brings this remarkable high-tech situational awareness a step closer to the lower 48 states. [full article] By John D. Ruley