MechEngr, thanks to our beloved CASA, what works in the USA (eg. WAAS) does not automatically work over here. Not if you want the rebate, anyways.
From uAvionix:
"Mounted directly on the wingtip, it integrates a 2020 compliant ADS-B 978MHz UAT transmitter" : https://uavionix.com/general-aviation/skybeacon/
From CASA: "ADS-B transmitting equipment (ADS-B OUT) broadcasts on 1090MHz" : https://www.casa.gov.au/operations-s...ow-ads-b-works
We're Australia - we have to be different.
My understanding was that initial issue over here with ADS-B uptake a year or two ago was supply.. you simply couldn't buy and install a
certified ADS-B Out device even if you wanted to. EC devices maybe, but not ADS-B Out. The supply situation appears to have improved (Flight Store are saying they now have GTX335's in stock:
https://www.flightstore.com.au/garmi...de-encoder-tso), but I'm not aware of any CASA-approved pocket-sized ADS-B Out units in stock anywhere here. Happy to be wrong, because I'd like to buy one.
Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
If you watched aircraft taking off out of Moorabbin registered to a private owner, you can drive on over and if there's nobody home, there's a high probability you know exactly where the home owner is.
Of course if you can afford VH-registered aircraft ownership and all the on-costs that entails, it makes sense to register it in the name of a company to claim GST and any similar tax benefits, whilst allaying the above privacy concerns. ie. is it you? or someone else in the pilots seat?