Reported by Sam Ogozalek, Oriana Pawlyk and Chris Marquette for Politco Pro Morning Transportation
In a letter signed by organizations including the Air Line Pilots Association, the Association of Flight Attendants and the Teamsters, the unions urged the House to draft a stringent Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In mandate (ADS-B In, for short) and to limit when the military can switch off a related technology, ADS-B Out. For now, the groups said they can’t support the ALERT Act, H.R. 7613, until it “sufficiently addresses” various recommendations from federal accident investigators.
“The only way to prevent another recurrence of a midair collision and honor the lives of those lost is to mandate integrated ADS-B In with a cockpit display of traffic information and close the ADS-B Out helicopter loophole for civilian airspace,” the letter reads.
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