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Avidyne unveils new traffic alert technology
April 11, 2013 • AOPA
Avidyne Corp. has worked since 2011 with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the FAA to develop the next generation of traffic alerting, which combines position data gleaned from Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), active scanning of nearby transponders, ground radar returns, and an algorithm that constantly calculates aircraft trajectories to drastically reduce false alerts, while giving pilots at least 30 seconds of warning if a collision is imminent.
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Avidyne Mixes Active-Surveillance and ADS-B Traffic
April 11, 2013 • AIN Online
“Midair collisions statistics are revealing,” said Avidyne COO Patrick Herguth during the company’s press conference at Sun ’n Fun 2013 (Booth C-71). “Fifty-nine percent of midairs happen near the airport; and 54 percent are between aircraft flying in the same direction.” Herguth was citing a 10-year-long study published by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
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Avidyne Offers ADS-B Traffic Surveillance Systems
April 11, 2013 • Aviation Today
Avidyne is making good use of its involvement in the FAA-funded Airborne Traffic Situational Awareness with Alerts (TSAA) program, as it announced the release of its Traffic Advisory Systems with ADS-B In capability.
The avionics manufacturer's TAS605A, TAS615A and TAS620A systems combines its VeriTAS technology, which provides a "true traffic picture for pilots" with ADS-B to provide a new collision avoidance solution for general aviation pilots.
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Avidyne, MIT Advance ADS-B with VeriTAS™
April 9, 2013 • FLYING
Avidyne and MIT researchers have been working for the past three years on improved ADS-B traffic alerting algorithms that the FAA hopes to use as the baseline standard for the entire avionics industry. Now the collaboration has led to the development of an Avidyne traffic alert feature called VeriTAS that has the goal of providing more precise collision alerting while eliminating nuisance alerts.
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Avidyne Supporting ADS-B Standardization
March 28, 2013 • FLYING
Avidyne announced on Tuesday that it supports and will participate in the industry standardization agenda for ADS-B display commonality. Avidyne has made interfacing with other companies’ equipment a priority in the design of its own avionics, and the announcement at the Aircraft Electronics Association show in Las Vegas comes as no surprise.
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Many choices for ADS-B equipage
March 28, 2013 • AOPA
While 2020 may seem a long way off, the clock is ticking on the coming NextGen mandate to equip aircraft with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out for flight within airspace where Mode C transponders are required today. Avionics industry leaders warn there’s no time like the present, because with about 225,000 aircraft in need of upgrades, and limited capacity in the shops, there may not be enough time to get all aircraft equipped by the deadline.
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Ghost Planes Clouding the Skies
November 20, 2012 • NBC Bay Area
Dozens of airplanes flying across an air traffic controller’s monitoring screen. Some are real. Others not. There’s no way for a controller to know the difference.
That’s the hacking scenario many aviation experts warn could become a reality with adoption of a new method of tracking air traffic control.
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ADS-B Separation Trial Begins in Oakland Center Oceanic Airspace
November 1, 2012 • AIN Online
The FAA released details of a new ADS-B-based oceanic airspace trial that began October 26 to reduce longitudinal separation between participating aircraft in Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center’s oceanic control area. The current trial applies to aircraft climbing and descending and is designed to prove that more aircraft will be able to fly at their requested altitudes using the ADS-B-enabled reduced separation standards.
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GA-ASI Successfully Tests ADS-B Surveillance System Aboard Guardian
October 26, 2012 • Avionics Intelligence
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced the successful demonstration of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-based surveillance system that provides pilots with enhanced situational awareness and supports GA-ASI's overall airborne sense-and-avoid architecture for its Predator(TM) B RPA.
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Drone Tests ADS-B-Based ‘Sense-and-Avoid’ Technology
October 25, 2012 • Flying Magazine Online
A Maryland company named R3 Engineering reported yesterday it has completed successful testing of an ADS-B-based fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence. The “sense and avoid” system installed in an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received and processed ADS-B signals from another aircraft, and the UAS’s on board computer determined that their courses constituted a threat of a collision.
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ADS-B tracking showcase planned
October 22, 2012 • Air Traffic Management
Sagetech and Arcturus UAV plan to demonstrate joint operations between unmanned and manned aircraft using inexpensive general aviation equipment on October 24.
The event will be staged from McMillan Airfield in Camp Roberts, California, and attended by several noteworthy guests, including representation from NavAir from Patuxent River, MD and the FAA Unmanned Systems office in Washington DC.
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ADS-B Vulnerability Remains a Serious Concern
October 3, 2012 • AIN Online
An article in AIN’s September issue addressed concerns that have been raised about the security of the ADS-B system, which is headed for widespread deployment around the world. ADS-B is designed to replace radar as the primary method for surveillance of airborne traffic. ADS-B can replace low-resolution radar detection of transponder-equipped aircraft with “automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast” or ADS-B signals, which broadcast speed, location and other information to properly equipped ground stations and other aircraft. ADS-B out-equipment, mandatory in the U.S. starting in 2020, transmits ADS-B information, while the more sophisticated ADS-B in equipment receives ADS-B information and makes it available to pilots.
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Fit for Purpose
September 10, 2012 • Air Traffic Management
Airservices Australia is continuing the roll-out of Automatic Dependant Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology – a satellite-based technology enabling aircraft to be accurately tracked by air traffic controllers and other pilots without the need for conventional radar. Paul Sadler reports.
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Hackers, FAA Disagree Over ADS-B Vulnerability
September 3, 2012 • AIN Online
The ADS-B system that is the cornerstone of the FAA’s NextGen ATC modernization plan is at risk of serious security breaches, according to Brad Haines (aka RenderMan), a hacker and network security consultant who is worried about ADS-B vulnerabilities. Haines outlined his concerns during a presentation he gave at the recent DefCon 20 hacker conference in Las Vegas, explaining that ADS-B signals are unauthenticated and unencrypted, and “spoofing” or inserting a fake aircraft into the ADS-B system is easy.
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ADS-B Technologies hails space first
June 13, 2012 • Air Traffic Management
Alaska’s ADS-B Technologies has given the first public demonstration of its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance system.
ADS-B said its tests, conducted in late April, demonstrated that highly accurate, reliable and low latency surveillance is now possible at any altitude and over any terrain from virtually anywhere on earth.
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FAA To Be Audited On Implementation Progress On Its ADS-B Program
May 17, 2012 • AvStop.com
The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) plans to initiate an audit of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) progress in implementing the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) program.
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ADS-B Technologies Successfully Tests Nextgen Air Traffic Surveillance Using the Globalstar Satellite Network
May 4, 2012 • EWORLDWIRE
ADS-B Technologies LLC has announced the completion of the first public demonstration of its revolutionary space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic control surveillance system in the deep mountain passes of Alaska. The tests, conducted during the third week in April, demonstrated conclusively that highly accurate, reliable and low latency surveillance is now possible at any altitude and over any terrain from virtually anywhere on earth.
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FAA’s NextGen Update
May 4, 2012 • Air Traffic Management
Since February, 54 new ADS-B radio stations became operational, bringing the total to 385. Additionally, the network includes advisory services and separation services. A service volume is a defined volume of airspace in the NAS within which a set of ADS-B services are provided and the required performance for the set of services is achieved.
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FAA Reports Progress on NextGen Implementation
May 2, 2012 • AIN Online
It’s clear that the final release of the FAA’s Authorization Act has given a new fillip to the agency’s NextGen implementation activity. The 2012 Plan, released in March, has a much more upbeat flavor than its 2011 predecessor, which essentially looked backwards at accomplishments in 2010, when most activities were still in their early stages.
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Fast-track NextGen mandates ‘misguided’
March 27, 2012 • Air Traffic Management
The attempt by US Congress to speed up ADS-B ‘in’ looks like a ‘classic unfunded mandate, imposing costs far in excess of benefits’, according to Air Traffic Management columnist Bob Poole.
Writing in his latest newsletter, Poole argues that recent US legislation which orders the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop, within one year, a plan to mandate that all aircraft flying in “capacity-constrained airspace” or at “capacity constrained airports” to be equipped with ADS-B ‘in’ capability by 2020 – the date already mandated for equipage with ADS-B ‘out’ – is misguided. An aircraft with ADS-B ‘in’ would be able to hear position reports from all the other nearby aircraft – independently of air traffic control.
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