ADSB for homebuilts?
After reading the recent ADSB group buy discussion I was very interested and began to think seriously about the financial investment. Today I read J. Mac McClellan's article on current FAA rules concerning ADSB. He is under the impression that experimentals are still out in the cold because of the TYPE requirement. We have no TYPE. He is recommending that we (the experimental community) hold off until the issue is settled.
Thoughts?
This is Mac's quotation:
Under its number one priority to keep ADS-B rules strict the FAA apparently forgot about homebuilts and other experimental airplanes. The rules require an STC (supplemental TYPE certificate) or TC (TYPE certificate). I capitalized type because that?s what is missing in an experimental. By its very existence an experimental aircraft has no type certificate. It?s a one-off, no matter if homebuilt, prototype, exhibition or developmental.
After reading the recent ADSB group buy discussion I was very interested and began to think seriously about the financial investment. Today I read J. Mac McClellan's article on current FAA rules concerning ADSB. He is under the impression that experimentals are still out in the cold because of the TYPE requirement. We have no TYPE. He is recommending that we (the experimental community) hold off until the issue is settled.
Thoughts?
This is Mac's quotation:
Under its number one priority to keep ADS-B rules strict the FAA apparently forgot about homebuilts and other experimental airplanes. The rules require an STC (supplemental TYPE certificate) or TC (TYPE certificate). I capitalized type because that?s what is missing in an experimental. By its very existence an experimental aircraft has no type certificate. It?s a one-off, no matter if homebuilt, prototype, exhibition or developmental.