Let's not talk about Garmin 430/530s like they're new - they stopped making them 5 years ago.
We had a bit of chat about this last night while we watched he storms roll through and we all agreed for commercial ops this ADSB mandate is spot on. The average age of our IFR aircraft is 22 years
and we have full confidence that our owner would have put at least $20 a week a side for avionics improvements so the cost and benefits we agreed were reasonable.
Private ops is where the arguments started as most guys agreed that as an owner and operator of an aircraft it should be up to you how you want to operate your craft. Is there an organisation is Aus that tried to prevent this and stand up for the private guy??