SAFA Skysailor Magazine

48 SKY SAILOR December-January-February | SUMMER 2025/2026 From this, you can see there appears to be an intention (of some) in CASA to remove the provision relating to Part 103 aircraft that lack the means of providing the required electrical generation capa- bility in item 4). This would mean that we would be required to carry and operate full-blown ADS-B equipment in Class E airspace or in Class G above 10,000ft AMSL. The note at the bottom of the table is a nice bit of sophistry from whoever made it and did the strike-throughs. There is only one device available that is battery powered, CASA has already told us it is not acceptable for separation, AND, it is not listed in the table as a device in Column 2 for Item 3. The Part 103 TWG has yet to get to this Chapter and that table, but I can tell you that if those strike-throughs are still there, then there will be a very strident rejection! It stands in direct contradiction to the same table in the CASR Part 91 Manual of Standards – www.legislation.gov.au/ F2020L01514/latest/text , refer to 26.68 on pages 146-147! The mandate consultation On 15 September 2025, the Department launched a public consultation on the topic of an ‘Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) mandate’. The con- sultation closed on 27 October 2025, but you can still view the consultation page and access the associated documents here: www.infrastructure.gov.au/have- your-say/automatic-dependent-surveil- lance-broadcast-ads-b-mandate The consultation paper included at that site was created by the ADS-B Mandate Cross Agency Working Group, combining personnel from the Department, CASA and Airservices Australia. It makes for interest- The ADS-B Mandate Proposal and Consultation