M-200 Instruction to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities (Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast)

That the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities be instructed to undertake a study on:

(a) the benefits of Automatic Dependant Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) in comparison to Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) to locate aircraft in distress;

(b) the improvement to aircraft safety for passenger, commercial and general aviation through the installation of a technology in which an aircraft’s position is determined via satellite navigation and periodically broadcast to a remote tracking system, such as ADS-B, and the benefits of making this technology the replacement for outdated ELT technology on general aviation aircraft currently required to be equipped with an ELT;

(c) the potential to amend the Canadian Air Regulations to include other technologies, such as ADS-B Out, as a means to comply with mandatory requirements to alert Search and Rescue of a crash and to locate the aircraft;

(d) how Canada can develop more robust and, ultimately, foolproof emergency alert standards that would include the periodic broadcast of the aircraft’s position, as well as the ability to remotely detect an accident, should the transmitter be disabled in a crash; and

(e) the effectiveness of incentives, such as rebates, to accelerate the adoption of this technology in the general aviation community;

and that the Committee report its findings to the House within six months of the adoption of this motion.