Originally Posted by
421dog
So if they can do this on a $1.5k drone, does that mean that it will soon cost less than $10k for the pensioner airport rats to equip their C120s with ADS-B out in order to meet the mandate?
Originally Posted by
Ian W
The problem is that ADS-B is already approaching saturation. If the numbers of sUAS being registered were to equip with ADS-B then they could completely jam the frequency. There are far better ways to obtain the position of small UAS than using broadcast systems based on World War 2 concepts for IFF. Unfortunately. it is being done that way 'because it is the way they've always done it.'
As far as I can tell, DJI has only announced ADS-B IN (receive), not ADS-B OUT. Source:
https://www.dji.com/au/newsroom/news...onsumer-drones
Last edited by duncan_g; 30th Jun 2019 at 04:31.
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