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FAA Pays To Equip JetBlue A320s With ADS-B
The U.S. FAA is giving JetBlue Airways $4.2 million toward equipping up to 35 of its Airbus A320s with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) avionics in exchange for data on these flights on the East Coast and to the Caribbean. (www.aviationweek.com) Más...
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The funding aspect of this certainly makes it a more interesting story than the wire article last week that didn't mention the money changing hands.
I read the story twice and I'm still not sure I understand what ADS-B does?
Sweat, Basically ADS-B plots the position of an equipped aircraft on a controller's screen, without radar. The aircraft transmits it's own position.
