FAA pays JetBlue to install ADS-B on Airbus A320s

摘要

The US Federal Aviation Administration will pay to have 35 JetBlue Airbus A320 aircraft fitted with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) units under a new public-private partnership announced on 3 February in Washington. The on-board equipment, which provides air traffic controllers with a precise GPS position and other surveillance information about the aircraft, will aid JetBlue in gaining full-time access to certain over-water jet routes that are sometimes una- vailable due to ground-based radar outages.