via le Pingouin;
Binghi, have you even looked at the coverage charts? It'd be a whole lot easier and a whole lot more effective to add a few cents to the cost of avgas if they wanted to collect, that way every mile of flying is charged, not just those in ADS-B coverage. It'd also catch those who don't fit the gear or don't turn it on. No contested bills, no database, no extra bureaucrats. No tracking required.
Hmmm... yeah, though,
le Pingouin. There is that looming Drone menace - civilian Drone's that is. Wont be long before Oz has literaly thousands of commercial Drones (UAV's) competing with manned aircraft for ATC time, and resources... and they dont use much 'taxable' fuel..... be a bit unfair for aircraft owners to be subsidising the commercial drone operators dont yer think...
...which brings us back to aircraft owners subsidising the ADS-B setup so that commercial drones can operate in Oz airspace... YEP, theres many reasons why there is a push for ADS-B..
...........and as we become ever more reliant on a GPS system we neither own or control the threat of terrorism bringing the house of cards ADS-B system down just grows and grows...
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