DCA Airplane Noise Assessment Project Excellent Suggestions FAA existing standards do not measure well Concentrated RNAV noise Other thoughts The FAA NextGen Metroplex implementation programs have met with unexpected opposition. The FAA ATO management saw…
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FAA to begin oversight of LaGuardia flight patterns for noise abatement FAA Starting Outreach for Metroplex Project in Florida Past Communications less than perfect FAA initiates TNNIS review at LGA Regional Administrator leads the South-Central Florida…
LESS ISN’T MORE FOR GPS AND FLIGHT SAFETY Rune Duke,AOPA, examines the conundrum How to balance DoD need with safety Filling out GPS Anomaly Reporting Form will help design solution. It’s a paradox of the next…
Odd that it came from the UK Shows the snake path of ground-based system Sends great safety message The average citizen has difficulty visualizing the ATC system- how it operates, where the facilities are located,…
Remote air traffic control tower reaches new heights in Colorado With a combination of both satellite-based technology and gro und-based video technology, air traffic controllers will be given a comprehensive view of air traffic….
What Ever Happened to Facility Consolidation? Robert Poole Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation Back in July, I read an article by Frank Frisbie and James Cistone, “A House…
How Los Angeles could become a flying-car utopia (or nightmare) by 2023 Safety hurdles are not insubstantial Little defined, much needs be done Tasks likely to require beyond 2023 America has become a country to instant…
Audit Announcement—Update on FAA’s Contract Tower Program Requested by the Chairmen of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and Subcommittee on Aviation Project ID: 18A3008A000 H2 Federal Contract Tower program, 30 years old H3 OIG…