ADS-B and international flying

摘要

SOMETHING HAPPENED while you were busy researching automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) equipment for your aircraft: The FAA required use of the ICAO flight plan form for domestic as well as international operations. The FAA has mandated ADS-B Out equipage after January. 1,2020, for flight in airspace where a transponder is required today. The requirement to file an ICAO-format flight plan for domestic operations is scheduled to begin June 5,2017. The original goal of October 1, 2016, was delayed at AOPA's request to better educate pilots and other stakeholders; it subsequently was extended again to the June date. Until the mandate takes effect, the FAA says it prefers users to file ICAO-format plans for all flights—and ICAO flight plans must be used if the flight will enter international airspace, including oceanic airspace controlled by FAA facilities; the pilot expects routing or separation based on performance-based navigation (PBN); the flight will enter reduced vertical separation min-imums (RVSM) airspace; or one expects services based on ADS-B.