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Pilots, airports clash over ADS‑B data use as committee hears House Bill 571 privacy measure
Summary
House Bill 571 would ban using ADS‑B broadcast location data to bill light general‑aviation aircraft for landing fees. Pilots and aviation groups urged passage as a privacy and fairness measure; airport managers and municipal authorities opposed it, saying ADS‑B is public data and the bill would hinder efficient billing and local control.
The Senate Energy Committee heard hours of testimony on House Bill 571 on Feb. 18, a bill the sponsor described as a privacy and fairness measure to prevent third‑party billing of light general‑aviation aircraft using ADS‑B broadcast data.
Representative Shane Klakken, sponsor of HB 571, told the committee the measure was intended to stop third parties and airports from using automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast, or ADS‑B, transmissions to generate landing or other user fees for private aircraft weighing 9,000 pounds or less and operating under Federal Aviation Administration Part 91 general‑aviation rules.
Klakken said the bill aims to protect private pilots who equipped their aircraft with ADS‑B—at owner expense for safety—from what proponents described as unexpected or opaque billing.…
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