Quokka and Oz
At last - two astute posters who comprehend the long term implications of ICAO Annex 6 and can see the Class E end airspace.
Hopefully Dick is reading the NAS DPV1.4 so he can also understand that ADS-B allows his NAS airspace to blossom around Australia with Class E over CTAF R. NAS Nirvana at last, although Dick is most quiet about the Annex 6?
Mjbow
Good point. One suspects as an example that there is no difficulty (except cost) in getting the Lonnie radar feed to Lonnie Tower? Problem is that we are then entering into how Airservices operates its business.
Bob Murphie
You have a point - we probably don't absolutely need all those extras you mention. Your mention of seatbelts and airbags makes one look at all the extra things we have today in vehicles that we don't REALLY need - airbags, traction control, ABS, demister, power steering. Why not keep GA in their 40 year old clunkers at the level of the FJ Holden re safety ........ hey, that's it -
affordable safety. Almost like ADS-B.
But your point remains valid - no subsidy, no go. Particularly if we now have another force - the unions - who are going to block it (how?).
I would be interested on expansion of your argument
excluding a plethora of self opinionated Pprune private hire pilots that just want more gadgets to twiddle with for 50 hours pa at the owners expense
If the subsidy occurs - what owner's expense? And are you suggesting that these 'self opiniated pilots' gain no benefits and safety by twiddling with the knobs of the owners Garmin 430 or even their own Garmin 296? We could, after all, save all this by returning to the open cockpit, no radio, and following roads of "The Good Old Days", no?
Binghi
While you are researching UAV go back half a century exactly to pre-GPS and the Malkara. While Airbus talk of fly by wire, the Malkara most certainly was an earlier derivative.
You might also like to research payloads for UAV, then the chance of actually purchasing one from the arms dealers, and compare to the availability and payload of a Bonanza or GA8 flown by a suicide pilot
Dick Smith
You are a technical issues man. How about researching what is needed in software to translate ADS-B for TCAS use. I dispute that ADS-B is 'unproven' - it is working around the world. TCAS receives data from its ping and feeds it to the display and annunciator with appropriate software massage to advise a decision for the pilot. What is so difficult about accepting another data stream and doing likewise. Apple Mac now talks IBM after all.
All that's needed to move forward is for the glass to change from half empty to half full. Success is a state of mind.