Increasing Beneift from ADS-B to General Aviation

The first step is to understand how ADS-B delivers Benefit to General Aviation. As can be seen in the previous post, ADS-B applications are the primary means by which ADS-B delivers benefit to the pilot. (That is not to say that there are no other, second order effects of ADS-B that are beneficial.)

So the initial step was to do a literature review as comprehensive as possible to get an accurate understanding of the ADS-B applications that have been proposed to this day. Long story short, 191 applications were identified, of which 42 were unique. A list of them along with a description can be found here.
As can be seen, two categories emerge: ADS-B Out applications and ADS-B In applications. In essence, this goes back to the equipage of the aircraft: If an aircraft is only equipped with ADS-B Out, the only applications it can perform/partake in are the ones listed in the ADS-B Out category. The same goes for the ADS-B In applications.

Now that we have a list of applications, the next step is to identify what applications deliver most benefit to GA. More on this in the next post.