recent House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing<\/a>, saying, \u201cIf ADS-B is being used by, I\u2019ll say, bad actors to monetize airport landing fees, that\u2019s going to discourage folks from employing ADS-B or adopting ADS-B in the first place or turning it off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe appreciate Representative Onder and Senator Budd for their leadership on this important issue. As pilots, they know firsthand how vital ADS-B is to aviation safety and how important it is that this be addressed at the national level,\u201d said AOPA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Advocacy Jim Coon. \u201cMontana was the first state to pass a law prohibiting the use of ADS-B to charge fees to most GA pilots. We\u2019re also seeing momentum building nationwide, with similar bills being filed in states like Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida, and Minnesota, with more on the way. While each of these efforts helps improve aviation safety, a patchwork of state laws could create confusion among pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo be clear, the bill would not prevent airports from imposing fees on pilots, nor would it impede the use of FlightAware, Flightradar24, or other popular flight tracking apps,\u201d Pleasance wrote in an email to AOPA members earlier today. \u201cWhen this bill becomes law, airports will still be able to impose fees, as long as they are fair and reasonable. Airports could also continue to use ADS-B to monitor traffic counts, understand traffic patterns and flows to help them manage and create operational efficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs pilots, we understand how much of a game changer ADS-B has been,\u201d said Pleasance. \u201cI\u2019ve spoken with many people who are deeply concerned about how quickly more airports are adopting this technology and how the data is being used. Allowing third parties to access personal information in the FAA aircraft registry without consent deters pilots and aircraft owners from equipping their aircraft with ADS-B.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of us have used ADS-B to track a flight online using a service like Flightradar24 or FlightAware, but those who aren\u2019t pilots may not understand how critical this technology has been to the continual improvement we\u2019re seeing in general aviation safety,\u201d said AOPA Air Safety Institute Senior Vice President Mike Ginter. \u201cThe accident rate has been dropping for more than 30 years and there is no question that ADS-B has contributed to that success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has launched a member call to action asking its 300,000 members to contact their senators and representatives in Congress and urge them to cosponsor the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act (PAPA), legislation that would address growing concerns over the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data, including its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33948,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions\/33948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}