Lancair Evolution
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15; Flight Crew Total 3000; Flight Crew Type 500
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Runway
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem
Human Factors; Manuals
Flying a practice instrument approach to CDN to a miss. Fine. But on short final: Whoops! Construction equipment all over the runway! No safety threat from the (planned) miss; but maybe a little scare for the workers? We get all our data from the ADS-b system these days; not phone calls to Flight Service.We need the METAR system to broadcast any airport or runway closures as part of the METAR format; in a way that ForeFlight; Garmin Pilot; FLYQ; Xavion; and the and all the other EFB applications can interpret! We are using these applications to get our data; and if mine had said 'runway closed!' or 'airport closed!'; then this possibly-uncomfortable situation could have been avoided. See we need the METAR data to broadcast airport/runway closure via the ADS-B system to the applications so we can get this info where we are really looking for it. I wrote Xavion and would surely do my part to code display of this info in my application if the info was available!
Lancair pilot reported lack of necessary airport information available from METAR via ADS-B on EFB applications.