[Music] I'm sorry I'm kind of in a hurry I've got the cubben piece it's trying to get a DSB out installed before the deadline next week not cup didn't have an electrical system when it left the factory eighty years ago and it probably never will have one so I'm exempt but you you might not be so lucky after next Wednesday that's January 1st 2020 airplanes with electrical systems will have to have a DSP out if pilots want to fly into such winter garden spots as Peoria Illinois or the Cedar Rapids beer summit and technically the regulation says after January 1st so it's really January 2nd midnight local time so you didn't do it right you just kept putting it off and now the witching hour has arrived now what well you're not alone at least not entirely no one really knows exactly how many airplanes were ATSB out candidates in the first place but FlightAware has been tracking equiping rates for several years as of last month that was November they said 88% of tracked airplanes had a DSB out but they're not tracking everything that flies so who knows how many airplanes don't have a DSB if you're one of them let's go over your options of course one of those is to get a DSP out installed but don't expect to get it done next week or even next month we check with half a dozen avionics shops and they told us the backlog is typically 2 to 6 months so if you're going to do it get on someone's calendar like today unless you're not going to do it at all and some owners aren't and maybe that's not such a bad thing so as of next Thursday where can you fly an airplane not equipped with a DSP out the answers are found in the scintillating bedtime reading of CFR 91 to 25 it's a relatively new regulation and unless you were sleeping during your last flight review this is going to sound kind of familiar start at the top to fly in class a airspace that's above 18,000 feet you need a DSP out but not just any idea be out flying in that airspace requires the so called extended squid er a DSP operating on 1090 megahertz not the other kind the universal access transceiver on 978 megahertz so don't even try it if you don't have the right box slumming our way downward into Indian country to fly between 10,000 feet MSL and 18,000 feet you also need a PSP down either kind will do there's an exception here if you're above 10,000 feet but within 2,500 feet of the ground you can skip having a DSP I'll have a nice trip over the Rockies flying into Class B or Class C airspace you're gonna need a TSB that includes flying under the shelves of the overlying airspace or flying above the Class B and Class C areas Class B airports have a 30-mile ring you'll remember that as the mode C veil its surface to 10,000 feet yeah you've got to have a DSP out to fly in there too now more exceptions if the airplane never had an electrical system like my old cub you don't need a DSP out to fly under the Class B and C shells and in a 30-mile ring it's just a lucky thing for me because the Tampa ring isn't that far away even if I need a fuel stop and a half a day to get to it these exceptions also apply to balloons and gliders although my cub gets wheezy above a thousand feet the exception applies as high as seventeen thousand nine hundred ninety nine feet right up to the base of class a airspace ad SB out not needed that may seem a little silly but some gliders do that sort of thing all the time you cannot however overtop Class B or Class C and non electrical airplanes how about Class D airspace those are airports with plain vanila control towers they're the last vestige of rugged individualism and freedom from stifling government overreach no ADSP out required for fights in Class D airspace however there are some twists some Class D airports are under Class B airspace so right you need a DSP out to fly there now let's the airplane qualifies for the non electric exception Beverly Massachusetts it's one example a few of these Class D airports live in Class B cut out areas that's no help yeah you can sneak in there without a Class B clearance but you're in the thirty mile ring so ABS B out is still required but these three Class the airports in Connecticut that I used to fly out of no ad s be out required now on two IFR flight plans surely a DSB out is required to file and fly an IFR flight plan right nope unless you're flying into Class A or Class B Airport or above 10,000 feet you can file and fly IFR all day without a dsb out and that turns out to be a lot of airspace but what if you have an emergency can you duck into say a Class B Airport sure you can your emergency authority Trump's any equipment requirement including a DSB out one more exception and you can use it to bail the airplane out from the previous scenario you can ask the fa for one-time permission to fly into rural air space without a DSB just go to this website and fill out the forms they email back the permission or at least that's how it's supposed to work don't think of this as a practical way to avoid equipping because it isn't and the faa has been clear about two things one it won't give these permissions over the phone and two not over atc frequencies to airborne aircraft either so if you want a few laughs log on to ATC comm next Thursday and listen to how many pilots say oh it's that today I must have missed it it's not like we haven't published a gazillion stories about a DSD and of course which guesses to what happens if you blunder into rural air space without a DSP out what's the FAA gonna do about that enforcement wise we don't know yet but I'm sure they'll come up with something okay so here's the don't need no stinkin 80s be out checklist no flight above 10,000 feet no flight in Class B or Class C including mode C vales no flight in class a airspace and no flying under the shells so that's it all tied up neatly with a bow a week of Christmas right well not exactly these guys have a non electrical system airplane based at a Class C Airport El Paso Texas they've got a battery-powered transponder and they petitioned the FAA to allow them to switch off the battery-powered ATSB once they cleared the rule airspace and to save battery power good idea then they switch it back on to come home hey works for me but you know the FAA is gonna use the brother rule finally you knew this your brother is gonna want to do it I never got that but then I don't have a brother travel a mine Paul burger Ellie reporting don't say we didn't warn you about all this stuff and Merry Christmas [Music]
