TIS (traffic information service)

On 28 Aug 2006 15:00:29 -0700, "John Galban"
wrote in .com:


The reason that GTX330 sales are in the dumper is that the FAA
announced (last year) that they would not implement TIS in future radar
upgrades, as a cost saving measure. This indicates to a lot of buyers
that the FAA is not interesting in supporting the technology long term.

I can't say I'm surprised. I've flown some TIS equipped aircraft
and I think it's one of the best traffic avoidance technologies I've
seen since TCAS. It figures that the FAA would choose to implement
"cost savings" by deleting something that actually works and works
well.


Isn't the FAA committed to ADS-B? If so, isn't TIS-B likely to
replace TIS, or is TIS-B backwards compatible with TIS?