Jaba - These are dead links. I tried searching ADSB & analysis without success.
Interestingly, this 2011 CASA paper does not show ADSB as mandatory for IFR aircraft below 10,000ft.
http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_asset...d/dp1102as.pdf
Nor does this 2010 paper from CASA
Civil Aviation Safety Authority - DP 1006AS
See annex D
I'm interested when and how it was decided that we would be the only country in the world to mandate ADSB for GA aircraft under 10,000 ft.
Yesterday climbing out in marginal VFR weather (on an IFR plan) I was separated from a VFR aircraft who did not have functioning mode C by virtue of the controller asking the other aircraft's altitude. On the second of February 2017 after I have spent my $25k the same situation will still exist.
So, why am I being forced to spend the money for the upgrade when there is no demonstrable benefit for my safety or efficiency of operation?
Tony Abbott & Joe Hockey said it yesterday. Its the end of the age of entitlement. Public servants in airconditioned offices in Canberra should not be entitled to cause me expense without transparent justification.