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"Vaughn" wrote:

"Bill Daniels" wrote in message
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It seems that the government wants to know where every airborne aircraft
is
at all times. The FAA of course said "transponders" but it was pointed
out
that radar coverage still has large gaps particularly at low altitudes.
(Burt Compton who operates a glider FBO in the west Texas town of Marfa
pointed out that his tow plane transponders almost never blink.) NASA
proposed ADS-B or automatic GPS position reporting. I expect that a
variant
of ADS-B will be mandated soon so get ready to yank that old Mode C
transponder.

That is not "Disruptive Technology", but rather "Disruptive
Bureaucracy".
We will all get a vote in a few weeks... Enough said.

Vaughn






Yes -- but I don't think that it will matter regarding TSA. We have
created a bureaucratic monster, at the behest of BOTH political parties!


Neither one of which is right. The middle will take back control...someday.


I hope that you are right -- before they destroy us in the process.
Unfortunately, history, in other countries has shown that the middle
doesn't act until it is too late: Russia, post WWI Germany, etc. The
fringes take control of political organizations and run things into the
ground.