ADSB-Out . . Creeping toward 2020

[Steve Pierce]

If this isn't the pits...right as we're finishing a second ADS-B installation! Should have expected nothing less from our government. Looks like we might want to change the title of the thread!

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/new...-230532-1.html

And the Short Wing Piper Club bought ShortWingPipers.org.

[Zac Weidner]

At least they have a sense of humor.

[51-pa22]

And the Short Wing Piper Club bought ShortWingPipers.org.

These both are jokes.

Expecting to mandate implementation if 50% of the fleet has it installed??? Mandating something if over 50% has it? Thought that it was implemented because they wanted to track aircraft flying into buildings, stadiums, and other soft targets.

One April 2018

[FlyboyAK]

Got ur done.

Went over to TOL and did some touch and goes.

Still makes me mad that I can look on flight tracker websites and see everything that I did but that was not good enough for the FAA.

Thanks for the help,

Rick

You can opt out of the FAA data sharing of ADS-B data to third party vendors (flight tracker websites). It’s a one time request and you want to use the “block FAA source data” option in your email request.

https://www.nbaa.org/ops/security/asdi/#level


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[MN_flyer1]

Well it may possibly be true. However, I would like to see this re-published on 4/2 just to confirm. Lol

[Gilbert Pierce]

if this isn't the pits...right as we're finishing a second ads-b installation! Should have expected nothing less from our government. Looks like we might want to change the title of the thread!

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/new...-230532-1.html

April fools day Zac

[Jim Hann]

Hey folks,

I noticed a post over on SuperCub.org about adding the ADS-B rebate to your taxes because the FAA claims on their FAQ that it is taxable income. No 1099 issued because it is less than $600. I called my CPA this morning (because I didn't report it to them) and her opinion is that isn't taxable income since it was a rebate against the purchase of the equipment. However, being the gubmint we know they want as much money as they can get... Actually her comment was "they are erring on the conservative side. Does the FAA have fine print saying that they are not qualified to give tax advise?"

I'll be watching this, if I see comments that folks are getting letters (which is probably where they would start, not audits) then we'll open up the returns and amend them.

Jim
PS, sorry for the thread drift.

[bluejeepdad]

my CPA ... and her opinion is that isn't taxable income since it was a rebate against the purchase of the equipment.

I'm no tax accountant or an attorney or anything like that, but it doesn't seem like a rebate. The FAA may call it a rebate but that don't make it so. A rebate is a return of part or all of a payment, for example from the manufacturer of a product to the final purchaser. In the case of ADS-B the purchasers didn't pay the FAA for the ADS-B equipment/install. So the FAA can't rebate anything back to the purchasers. Seems like this is more of a government contract. The FAA paid people who did something the government wanted them to do, equip an aircraft with ADS-B. If it's taxable income or not, I have no idea, and like I said I'm not at all qualified to say anything about. But I don't think it's a rebate.

Tim

[Steve Pierce]

Cathy agrees with Jim, she does this stuff all day everyday and is really looking forward to April 17th.

[smcnutt]

Looks like the skybeacon wingtip light is making forward progress
https://www.uavionix.com/news/skybea...e-may-16-2018/

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They even seem to be working on a tail light version that I could use because of my droop tips on my wings