It's good to hear from a leading equipment manufacturer on this issue, and your explanation is understandable, but accepting that to be the case, then it would seem there is no solution to the problem, except perhaps getting the FAA to reduce the performance standards set forth in the ADS-B regulations.
Is that what you have in mind when you say Dynon will keep working to see if we can get some changes to provide solutions for experimentals?
I think we need to know what regulatory change we should be working for to solve this cost problem.
Up to this point, many have believed the fundamental problem is that the ADS-B regs require certified and/or TSO'd equipment to be installed, and if we could just get rid of that requirement, and instead be allowed to use so-called "portable solutions," our problems would be solved. Your post indicates otherwise, because even "portable solutions" would still have to meet the complex performance standards and have a way of proving it.
So the question becomes, what then is the solution? It seems unlikely to me that the FAA would reduce the ADS-B performance standards, but then again I'm not an expert regarding the technical details.
The EAA article on this development quotes Doug Macnair, EAA Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, as saying, "This technical correction is a good first step, but there is much more work to do."
http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/eaa-news-...le-correction-opens-door-for-lower-cost-ads-b
Well great, but I am going to contact EAA to find out what "more work" they have in mind. The Experimental/GA community needs to know what type of reform we can work for as a solution in order to be able to get behind that reform.
EAA and AOPA are telling us they are urging FAA to permit a low cost solution to ADS-B compliance. That?s great, because that?s what we want them to do, but I can?t tell if they have a solution in mind and, if so, is there some reason they are not yet sharing it with us? Inquiring minds want to know. Or are they still scratching their heads as to what it should be?