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Industry has capacity to accommodate mandatory ADS-B installations, but operators who fail to make reservations will concentrate demand and lead to long wait times as the U.S. FAA's Jan. 1, 2020 deadline approaches, a senior Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) executive warned.
In his latest column, Ric Peri, vice president of government and industry affairs for AEA, disputed claims about the avionics industry’s capacity for the ADS-B installation mandate. “When people ask about capacity, they are challenging the viability of industry…They want to artificially increase capacity, which increases competition for a single-demand event without considering the devastating effect it would have on the industry the day after the deadline is completed,” Peri said in the August 2017 edition of Avionics News.
A ramp-up of avionics technicians, he said, would saturate the workforce and result in unemployed technicians on Jan. 1, 2020, when demand returns to normal. “Because someone doesn’t make a reservation, [that] isn’t a failure of capacity,” Peri added. “It is a result of their own procrastination, despite knowing there is expected demand.”
He likened it to trying to get a table at a restaurant during a peak time on a holiday. Observers shouldn't assume need exists for more restaurants; the customer needed either to reserve a slot or expect to wait. Top avionics shops already have a queue, and this will grow as the deadline approaches, he said. As the mandate draws closer, “all the shops will have a queue.”
Peri added, “We have products, we have installation capacity and we have the manufacturing capacity for a measured demand.” But lines will grow if people do not seek a reservation.
His call came as FAA Administrator Michael Huerta last month reiterated that the agency is holding firm on the deadline for ADS-B OUT and urged operators to take advantage of equipage incentives while they are still available. Huerta, who spoke to an audience at EAA AirVenture 2017 said that, at the time, about 12,000 of the rebates were still left unclaimed.
“Please don’t leave this money on the table,” he urged, and further warned that the deadline “hasn’t—and won’t—change. Repair stations around the country are already getting booked up with installation appointments. And it’s only going to get worse as the deadline approaches.”
The avionics industry has the capacity to accommodate mandatory ADS-B installations, but operators who fail to make reservations will concentrate demand and lead to long wait times as the U.S. FAA's Jan. 1, 2020 deadline approaches, a senior Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) executive warned.
In a recent column, Ric Peri, vice president of government and industry affairs for AEA, disputed claims about the avionics industry’s capacity for the ADS-B installation mandate. “When people ask about capacity, they are challenging the viability of industry…They want to artificially increase capacity, which increases competition for a single-demand event without considering the devastating effect it would have on the industry the day after the deadline is completed,” Peri said in the August 2017 edition of Avionics News.
A ramp-up of avionics technicians, he said, would saturate the workforce and result in unemployed technicians on Jan. 1, 2020, when demand returns to normal. “Because someone doesn’t make a reservation, [that] isn’t a failure of capacity,” Peri added. “It is a result of their own procrastination, despite knowing there is expected demand.”
He likened it to trying to get a table at a restaurant during a peak time on a holiday. Observers shouldn't assume need exists for more restaurants; the customer needed either to reserve a slot or expect to wait. Top avionics shops already have a queue, and this will grow as the deadline approaches, he said. As the mandate draws closer, “all the shops will have a queue.”
Peri added, “We have products, we have installation capacity and we have the manufacturing capacity for a measured demand.” But lines will grow if people do not seek a reservation.
His call came as FAA Administrator Michael Huerta last month reiterated that the agency is holding firm on the deadline for ADS-B OUT and urged operators to take advantage of equipage incentives while they are still available. Huerta, who spoke to an audience at EAA AirVenture 2017 said that, at the time, about 12,000 of the rebates were still left unclaimed.
“Please don’t leave this money on the table,” he urged, and further warned that the deadline “hasn’t—and won’t—change. Repair stations around the country are already getting booked up with installation appointments. And it’s only going to get worse as the deadline approaches.”