Bob Murphie, stop spreading BS.
Get your facts straight, your persistent spreading of half truths and confusion is
Your "FACTS" are non-sensical, airlines have nothing to do with cross industry funding.
From here:
http://www.astra.aero/downloads/ABIT...S_Overview.pdf
This in turn will ensure that funding is available (in the form of savings from the avoided
cost of ground infrastructure replacement) to fund the required airborne infrastructure.
The savings and hence subsidy would come out of AsA budgets. I.e. money already set aside to maintain radar systems would instead be spent on ADS-B avionics in GA aircraft.