The military carve outs for this need to be considered. I realize the desire to prevent accidents like the one that is motivating this, but I live near Fort McCoy and I run an adsb feeder. I hear jets training every day over my head, but they never have their transponders on. This is a good thing as far as I’m concerned, I don’t want to ever be accused of providing our enemies with data on the flight maneuvers they are practicing. I just like seeing the crop dusters do their thing on the map.
Interesting how a fairly obscure technical requirement gets prioritized legislatively when flights collide at the airport U.S. senators use every week. Anyway, it's definitely good this is getting addressed. All crewed powered aircraft operating in controlled airspace near commercial flights should be required to have transponders. And when crossing paths with commercial traffic around a public airport, military aircraft should be required to have their transponders active.
I assume the bill contains some small requirement that will make it harder to track Cruz running to Cancun every time the wind picks up. Excepting "emergency" flights or something.
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