FAA $500 ADS-B rebates starting

[GalinHdz]

Originally Posted by jeffk

Why not? From the .pdf posted above, it states you have to reserve before install. No one has been able to clarify 'self installation' vs going to a shop, but I wouldn't count yourself out just yet...

Exactly.

File for your reservation code, for an experimental aircraft you are an authorized installer so install it yourself, it is a new transponder so you have to get the installation checked for correct code/altitude/power outupt, fly with the unit operating to get an FAA compliance report then request the rebate.

[vasrv7a]

Also, if you look at the approved equipment list that the FAA's has currently put together, Garmin's GTX-23 is listed... That equipment is specifically designed to work with the G3X... specifically for the EAB market.

So someone at the FAA must have taken into consideration EAB aircraft when putting the program and the list together. Details apparently are not yet available which would identify how equipment installed in an EAB aircraft can qualify for the rebate...

Hopefully we'll soon see what the FAA has in mind for this rebate and our aircraft.

[FasGlas]

This might be some incentive deal they are doing thinking there's going be lots of owners that are not going to install ADS-B and see what happens at the deadline, just like 408 ELT's. Tossing $10M of tax payers money into the mix may get some to jump at it.

[GalinHdz]

Originally Posted by vasrv7a

Also, if you look at the approved equipment list that the FAA's has currently put together, Garmin's GTX-23 is listed... That equipment is specifically designed to work with the G3X... specifically for the EAB market.

So someone at the FAA must have taken into consideration EAB aircraft when putting the program and the list together. Details apparently are not yet available which would identify how equipment installed in an EAB aircraft can qualify for the rebate...

Hopefully we'll soon see what the FAA has in mind for this rebate and our aircraft.

Also by using the term "authorized installer" instead of "certificated repair station" they were taking EAB into consideration.

[David-aviator]

Originally Posted by GalinHdz

Exactly.

File for your reservation code, for an experimental aircraft you are an authorized installer so install it yourself, it is a new transponder so you have to get the installation checked for correct code/altitude/power outupt, fly with the unit operating to get an FAA compliance report then request the rebate.

The FAA is not accepting reservation yet. It appears they won't do so until September 2016. All that's available now is notification of their intent to rebate $500 for ADS-B installation.

The hoops to jump through (requirements) to get the $500 are considerable starting with installation within 90 days of reservation. The reservation web site will not be up and running until September and will accept approximately 20,000 reservations. After that there will be no more.

The equipment must be certified. Probably the best way to start is to get equipment ordered so it will be on hand for install during the 90 day window. And if there is a delay, do not register until equipment can be installed within the 90 day window. Of course in the mean time, thousands of other purchasers will registering so in the end, the program will help only 20,000 of the hundreds of thousands of aircraft owners out there.

I am not impressed.