As the FAA's 2020 ADS-B Out mandate approaches, an increasingly wide array of products are available for operators needing to retrofit their airplanes. There's one class of airplanes, however, for which the upgrade path hasn't been at all clear-those that came from the factory with a glass panel. While brand-new glass-panel airplanes today typically come equipped for ADS-B Out, older airplanes with glass panels that predate the mandate typically will require an upgrade-and that raises issues: Do you get the upgrade from the avionics vendor, or from the aircraft manufacturer? Do you have to upgrade the panel, or can you add something like a stand-alone Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) ? And what about "orphan" airplanes that are no longer supported by the original manufacturer?
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