Seaworthy
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Massachusetts
I have ordered them. They will not work on a Piper fabric rudder.
Why not?
I have ordered them. They will not work on a Piper fabric rudder.
Why not?
Yes, Pete, the verbiage for ADS-B is different from the transponder rule.
MTV
Unfortunately that is not allowed. The regulations specifically state that if the airplane ever had the engine driven equipment installed it can not be removed for this purpose.Just remove the engine driven generator/alternator, then you are exempt from ads-b out.
Mike---have you heard when the tail beacon will be out? I heard it was TSO'd--- now I hear uAvionix is dragging their feet r/t production--while the clock is ticking.
I feel lucky I live in the sticks and don't need this stuff.
Why not install a skyBeacon instead. Way simpler with the only modification being a .125" thick aluminum spacer on a stock Piper nav light bracket? And the skyBeacon is cheaper than the tailBeacon.
Steve, Unfortunately Seaworthy's airport has the outer edge of a class B airspace touching one side of the traffic pattern. Why not just make a spacer which pushes the tail beacon further out? That shouldn't be too difficult.
I have something in mind.Pete---there has to be a reasonably easy fix
Pacific Coast Avionics shipped my TSO/STC’d TailBeacon for the 180 on Thursday.
Should have it installed by Wednesday.
Lou
I have something in mind.
You can cut and weld on the rudder and repair fabric or make a spacer that is a bout an inch plus longer for it to stick out but would make it easy to get knocked off. I'd put it on the wing tip and be done with it. Super simple and you can see a tube and fabric Piper's strobes from behind in bright daylight no matter what the charts etc say. I have followed my Dad all over the country in his Clipper with them
If you install ADS B Out device forward or aft of the nav light-- won't that obscure the visibility of that light from other aircraft? Would you install it a considerable distance from the nav/ strobe light on the wing tip? Are there any photos of such an install?
If you install ADS B Out device forward or aft of the nav light-- won't that obscure the visibility of that light from other aircraft? Would you install it a considerable distance from the nav/ strobe light on the wing tip? Are there any photos of such an install?
Here's a non-commercial ADS-B site run by enthusiasts: https://www.adsbexchange.comTo go way back to #1 of the original post, I've read somewhere that some of the "FlightAware" type websites are putting up their own ground receivers. No way to go anonymous, unless they plan to pay for the stations with your payoffs. If the FAA data stream is free (is it?) what other motivation is there? In the 30 years its has taken to get the system off the ground, encryption has become cheap and common. Sigh..
1. When you have your ADS-B Out unit set to "Anonymous mode", the unit still transmits your tail number to the FAA. The only anonymity is that your tail number is blocked to the "Public". So, if you're paranoid about Joe the child molester down the street possibly tracking you, set that puppy to anonymous mode, but understand that the FAA will still receive all the data they would have if the unit were in normal mode.
A little off center of topic but I think worthy of some consideration. Two flight
instructors went to pick up the Mooney one of them had purchased. The plane was
in excellent condition except for an electrical glitch in the avionics. Also
equipped with ADS-B out. Flight of only a few hundred miles to get it home. They
launched and almost immediately lost communications but continued the VFR flight
at 25-2800 feet and arrived home without incident- so they thought. It seems the
ADS-B unit was broadcasting their altitude as 25-28 THOUSAND feet for some reason. Since they
were showing up on the screens but were incommunicado multiple commercial flights were diverted by ATC. Military
jets were scrambled to look for the Mooney but were unable to find it at the high altitude. Our guys
were showing the plane to their buddies at the airport when Feds showed up.
Explanations were made. NASA reports have been filed, and hopefully all is well.
Be careful about ADSB-out. It can bite you in ways nobody expected and haven't thought of yet.