Michael Christie

ADS-B is such a superior improvement to safety in the skies it is inconceivable to me that the FAA would delay its implementation. If one considers the number of non-commercial aircraft able to be flown in the United States it would stand to reason that competition from various avionics manufacturers would bring the price down. That being said, please don't do something stupid and have an unreasonably short timetable for manufacturers and owners to build the devices and schedule their installation. No point in having plane to plane information with no aircraft in the skies! I also think the FAA has to be quite comprehensive in its requirements of who installs this equipment. It wouldn't make sense to have any segments of the GA or biz aircraft population exempt. I often fly into uncontrolled airports with scheduled airline service or regular biz aircraft movements and think that no type of flying should be exempt. Safety for everyone in the skies should be paramount particularly as we move into a time when the glass cockpits and steam gauges coexist over the various categories of flying.