Posted on February 9th, 2019
The Senate has approved a four-year FAA reauthorization package, which is now awaiting the President’s signature. This ends more than four years of debate and 23 short-term extensions of the FAA’s programs and funding. The legislation authorizes $63.3 billion for FAA programs through 2015, maintaining fuel taxes as the means for general aviation to pay for its use of the aviation system with no new user fees. The bill requires all aircraft operating within “capacity-constrained” airspace to be equipped for ADS-B IN capability to receive and display air traffic targets in the cockpit by 2020, despite the opposition of an industry/government aviation rulemaking committee (ARC). The ARC opposed mandatory equipage at this time due to the costs airlines would have to incur.
Tags: FAA bill, FAA reauthorization
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