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  1. 3 hours ago, Bunti said:

    As pilots here in the US, we have to have an organization which fights for us. AOPA is the voice of General Aviation. 

    Basic Med, no user fees .... are just a few examples. And they fight very hard for keeping airports open for us.

    Without that advocacy we will end up like the pilots in Germany or Europe: High fuel taxes, high landing fees, approach and departure fees, no landings from noon to 3pm, no landings if the tower is not manned or in the dark, restrictions everywhere, no GPS approaches to most General Aviation airports, no ADS-B weather, noise restrictions (need of buying a new prop or muffler from time to time) no basic med, lots of parts are TBO limited and way more.

    Germany for example has an AOPA group but this group is so small that it has only very little political power.

    With AOPA in the US it is completely different. The organization with its 280,000 members has a powerful voice in Washington, at the FAA and everywhere else where decisions are done.

    I was also wondering about the high salary of Mark Baker, but this is not a reason for me to cancel my membership. I saw and still see Mark  fighting hard for our pilots interests and rights on the political stage. This needs to be continued. 

    I even would encourage more pilots to become a member. The bigger the group is, the stronger we are on the political stage and at the FAA.

    As a European aircraft owner I can’t emphasize this enough.  Whatever beef you have with AOPA, it is NOTHING compared to not having a functional lobbygroup.  You can’t make up all the stuff  European politicians implement to make your GA-life worse.

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  2. I’m not getting any messages.  According to the ngt9000, everything is hunky-dory.  But it doesn’t know that there are a ton of acft out there that it’s supposed to report.  I asked the avionics shop to run the TAS check with the ramp test set (this was a couple of weeks ago.  They never reported their findings, but I guess when there is an antenna problem it would have been clear by running this test.  I’ll ask them how this test went…

  3. Thanks for the replies guys.  The TAS targets are definitely there.  They were in contact with flight info and they got traffic information about my presence.  You don’t receive traffic information from our FIS without a working transponder.  I even have a playback from Flightradar 24 where you can see the conflicting traffic and the source of the info (multilateration).  The range of TAS is limited vs ADS-B, but when I’m able to see the colour of the other pilot’s t-shirt, the NGT should at least acknowledge the presence of another acft.  The unlock of TAS is also out of question.  I was there when they performed it, and you really can’t get a green “pass” during the selftest when it’s not unlocked.  I didn’t get the TAWS unlock and during selftest this is clearly shown in red.  So I’d say the system’s logic works.

    I was thinking about shadowing of the active antenna, but then the target should show up at some bearing eventually.  This doesn’t happen.  Even targets above me don’t show up, so that can’t be due to shadowing, right ?  There are a lot of mode a/c/s targets flying around in Europe, especially during sunny weekends.  But yesterdag the ngt saw none, nada.  All of the time the freq of the FIS was overloaded though.  Doesn’t compute…

    I’m really suspecting the active antenna.  It doesn’t perform.  Is it possible the antenna passes the ngt self-test without receiving power ?

    Does the antenna need a separate circuit breaker or does it get its juice from the ngt ?

  4. I got a NGT9000+ with the NY164 active antenna.  The system detects all acft with ADS-B xpdrs, but it doesn’t see any mode A/C or mode S equipped acft.

    The TAS is definitely unlocked and passes the selftest.  Could it be a problem with the antenna itself then ?  I ruled out blind spots due to placement of the antenna because then at least some acft should show up sometimes.  And yes: mode A/C/S is still a big deal here in Europe :-)

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