by Rich » Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:51 pm
There's an interesting aspect to ADS-B as implemented in the US. Contrary to what some believe, there is no periodic "re-certification" of your ADS-B out solution performed at specific intervals like the 24-month Transponder/encoder tests. Instead, your system is continuously monitored by the ADS-B infrastructure itself. If a problem pops up, you'll be notified. The sidebar in the article describes such an occurrence.
But you can check on what the system is seeing by simply requesting a PAPR at any time. Every day, if you want. I tend to do one of these a couple of times a year. Response to the request is typically very fast. It's within a few minutes in my experience, and is free.
For me the singular potential benefit of the tailBeaconX would be for fulfilling ADS-B out requirements that might come to be in the future. Right now, this will likely be Aerion. I wondered whether an analog of PAPR reports might be available from Aerion. Speculation abounded, so I decided to ask, sending this inquiry to Aerion:
Does (or will) the Aerion provide a service similar to the "Public ADS-B Performance Report" (PAPR) provided by the FAA?
The response? Short and sweet:
Thank you for reaching out. We do not provide PAPR reports.
To me this implies that the first notice of non-compliance in places like Canada would be a nasty-gram, unless some feature like PAPR gets offered in the future, either by Aerion or the particular entity using the system.
From what I can find out, tailBeaconX beta test units do generate data within Aerion, but the data is only shared with uAvionics. So they may consider the information proprietary.
There's an interesting aspect to ADS-B as implemented in the US. Contrary to what some believe, there is no periodic "re-certification" of your ADS-B out solution performed at specific intervals like the 24-month Transponder/encoder tests. Instead, your system is continuously monitored by the ADS-B infrastructure itself. If a problem pops up, you'll be notified. The sidebar in the article describes such an occurrence.
But you can check on what the system is seeing by simply requesting a PAPR at any time. Every day, if you want. I tend to do one of these a couple of times a year. Response to the request is typically very fast. It's within a few minutes in my experience, and is free.
For me the singular potential benefit of the tailBeaconX would be for fulfilling ADS-B out requirements that might come to be in the future. Right now, this will likely be Aerion. I wondered whether an analog of PAPR reports might be available from Aerion. Speculation abounded, so I decided to ask, sending this inquiry to Aerion:
[i][b]Does (or will) the Aerion provide a service similar to the "Public ADS-B Performance Report" (PAPR) provided by the FAA? [/b][/i]
The response? Short and sweet:
[i][b]Thank you for reaching out. We do not provide PAPR reports.[/b][/i]
To me this implies that the first notice of non-compliance in places like Canada would be a nasty-gram, unless some feature like PAPR gets offered in the future, either by Aerion or the particular entity using the system.
From what I can find out, tailBeaconX beta test units do generate data within Aerion, but the data is only shared with uAvionics. So they may consider the information proprietary.