With the recent publication of a final rule establishing ADS-B Out equipment performance requirements, FAA is starting to consider applications for ADS-B In, enabling aircraft to display air traffic in the cockpit.

Vincent Capezzuto, FAA director of Surveillance & Broadcast Services, said an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) will begin meeting next month to consider requirements for ADS-B In, which is not mandated by the ADS-B final rule published May 28 and requiring compliance by 2020.

“We consider what we’ve been doing up to this point as being foundational toward NextGen and, much like your iPhone, as the hardware platform where you layer in applications,” said Capezzuto, speaking June 9 during the Avionics Magazine webinar, ADS-B: Progress and Implementation. “Our airborne applications are the next steps and work that has to get formed.”

The ARC has been asked to produce an interim report by October and final report by September 2011 “with the hopes of putting some clarity around the maturity of the applications, their benefits and costs,” Capezzuto said.

“It may require further investments in the aircraft. Recognizing that simultaneously we have a rule for ADS-B Out, this particular aviation rulemaking committee is really chartered to discuss the strategy going forward; it may not result in a rule.”

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