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Originally Posted by mv031161
from an email I got from Flying magazine this AM
Use an iPad Go to Jail?
Is the FAA trying to take away our handheld navigators and chart readers? A new draft advisory circular would sure make it seem like it. In fact, if it were approved as written, for all intents and purposes, it would mean the end of being able to see our position on moving map displays...and then some. To get the lowdown on this alarming situation, read Robert Goyer's Going Direct.
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With any luck at all, the guy who wrote that AC has been laid off - maybe he won't be back.
There are a lots of good people in the FAA but there are also many desk bound bureaucrats from top to bottom in the U.S. government who's only function is to irritate U.S. citizens like us. With the long over due budget cut backs maybe there will be fewer obstructionist bureaucrats in the future.
You should have heard the guy at an OSH forum talk about the FAA and 100UL fuel. The fuel is good, its been tested, it will work, it can be produced just like 100LL - the only problem is certification. FAA bureaucrats nearly caused several years of research work to be flushed down the drain - the effort had been completely stonewalled.
The guy went to a new person in the FAA above this stumbling block of regulators and the result was the entire FAA team is gone. A new group was formed and the effort is now moving forward. He said more was accomplished in the past six weeks than the previous three years. We may have a suitable replacement for 100LL one of these days and the aviation world won't come to end as we know it. !00LL is on short life support - lead is the problem and that won't go away.
This AC on the Ipad smells, someone appears to have been bought off. There are other efforts within the organization working with industry to get it approved for more applications. ADS-B is one of them.