ADS-B-based billing<\/a>, and the need to \u201cmake it illegal for a safety tool that is specifically designed to prevent two aircraft from running into each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nSheehy is an original cosponsor of the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act (PAPA), which would prohibit, nationwide, the practice of using a technology intended to enhance safety for fee collection. The ALERT Act includes key provisions from PAPA (section 105). AOPA has strongly advocated for PAPA and section 105 of the ALERT Act and will continue to advocate for it to become law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked if ADS-B was \u201cintended to be a fee collecting, tax collecting device,\u201d Bedford replied, \u201cNo, sir. It was intended to be a safety and situational awareness tool.\u201d Bedford also noted he recently spoke about the issue at an airport operator\u2019s conference, telling attendees \u201cthat we frown on the concept of using ADS-B information for revenue collection at airports.\u201d He also told Sheehy that \u201cif we need to step up that in terms of how aggressively we dissuade that, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sheehy pointed out that the practice has a negative impact on safety as it \u201ccreates an incentive for pilots, companies, or any organization that owns and operates an aircraft to say, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be emitting my signal. I\u2019m going to find mechanical excuses, I\u2019m going to find regulatory excuses, or I\u2019m going to straight up not going to turn it on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSenator Sheehy is spot on with his observations regarding the misuse of an aircraft collision avoidance technology to collect taxes and fees. AOPA also applauds Administrator Bedford\u2019s agreement on this issue, especially as the House and Senate work out differences between these important aviation safety bills,\u201d said AOPA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Advocacy Jim Coon. \u201cThere is strong support for putting an end to this practice, including National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy, who commented at an earlier Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the use of ADS-B for economic gain \u2018should be prohibited.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least a dozen states are considering legislation to prevent ADS-B from being used to collect fees. Florida recently became another state to implement such a ban. Meanwhile, the Louisiana House recently passed HB 730, which would ban the practice in that state, and will now be taken up by the state Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe appreciate this growing sentiment at the state level, but we need a national policy to avoid a patchwork of laws across the nation,\u201d said Coon. \u201cBesides, when section 105 becomes law, airports and state and local tax collectors can still collect fees, they just wouldn\u2019t be able to use an aircraft collision avoidance device to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) welcomes and supports comments made by FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford during a Senate Aviation Subcommittee hearing last week about the practice of using ADS-B to charge fees to pilots. Much of the discussion during the hearing centered on differences between the Senate-passed Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform […]<\/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-35374","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\/35374","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=35374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35375,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions\/35375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}