SSA responds to ANPRM

No one has commented yet on the SSA response? Likely to be the biggest
impact to soaring in the U.S. in many many years. On the SSA site if you
haven't seen it yet. Maybe pilots flying out of lower states just don't
worry about it.

I was very happy to see it posted a week before the deadline to give
people a chance to read it before submitting their own response. Gave
some background info on the Reno crash that I hadn't heard before, about
rerouting big iron arrivals through the wave area, and the NTSB
investigator believing that was a contributing factor.

The comments about relying on PowerFlarm are not likely to be persuasive
to the FAA, they undoubtedly are well aware of it, and probably perceive
it as being an offshoot system with only minimal compatibility with the
nextgen system they're putting in place. There's more than a grain of
truth to that, although ADS-B is so poorly done it leaves the door open
to alternatives.

-Dave