On Friday, July 4, 2014 8:17:03 AM UTC-7, SoaringXCellence wrote:
Just as I thought, wishful thinking. I have an experimental registered glider and I'll just wait a while to install a transponder.

It's very unfortunate that FAA has strayed so far from the original vision of ADS-B Out so small and inexpensive that portable units would be carried by skydivers and hang glider pilots. The system integrity requirements for ADS-B Out are ridiculous when compared with the current system integrity requirements for mode C. Any approved glider logger with integral baro sensor is capable of producing position and altitude data with integrity at least as good as the altitude data of a mode C transponder with separate encoder.

Another good idea killed by excessive regulation.

Andy (GY)