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Industry awaits ARC report on changes to ADS-B plan
October 01, 2008
At a recent NextGen conference, Jim Linney of the FAA’s ADS-B office detailed the user community’s response to the invitation to comment on the agency’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). Of the 1,372 responses to the document’s 85 separate issues, there were 101 positive comments, versus 1,271 negative–or “non-positive,” in FAA terminology–comments....
moreTSA issues security action items for FBOs
October 01, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued updated security action items (SAIs) for FBOs. The agency has not yet issued specific rules mandating security measures at FBOs, and these SAIs are basically the same as the guidelines that the TSA published in 2004, but reorganized to be more applicable to FBOs. This guidance, which is not...
moreCandidates’ Plans for Bizav Remain Hazy
October 01, 2008
When the new president takes office in January, among the myriad issues to be addressed will be the concerns of the aviation community. Certain to top the pile are FAA reauthorization, air traffic control modernization and selection of a new FAA Administrator.Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who took office in January 2005, has little track record on aerospace...
moreControllers Union Gains Bargaining Unit
October 01, 2008
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) has officially added 150 ATC specialists assigned to the flight service option at Automated Flight Service Stations, Flight Service Stations and Flight Service Data Processing Systems sites located in Alaska and at the “weather unit” of the Air Traffic Control System Command Center near Dulles...
moreCongressional Observer: October 2008
October 01, 2008
• While Congress was on a five-week recess from August to September, the process for nominating presidential candidates (Senators John McCain and Barack Obama) took over the news headlines and focused attention on the coming election. As the campaign heated up and gathered steam, there were ever more promises as to what each candidate, if elected, would do...
moreNTSB Orders FAA To Reimburse Wronged Pilots
October 01, 2008
The NTSB’s chief administrative law judge on September 3 ordered the FAA to pay $12,475 in attorney fees and expenses to two pilots, whom the Agency had accused of operating an unairworthy Learjet 60, and the FAA subsequently withdrew its suspension of the pilots’ airline transport pilot certificates. The FAA, which had initiated an enforcement action in...
moreReport: GA still poses a threat to U.S. security
October 01, 2008
Seven years after 9/11, general aviation is still vulnerable to acts of terrorism because of inaction by the White House, according to a report prepared by the Democratic staffs of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees.Titled Wasted Lessons of 9/11: How the Bush Administration Has Ignored the Law and Squandered Its Opportunities to Make...
moreSDR Database Undergoes Testing
October 01, 2008
The FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting System (SDR) database is undergoing maintenance and should be available for queries after testing is complete, according to the agency. The final step before reopening the SDR database for public use is a test with three large submitters of reports to the database to see how the system responds. Once the upgrades are...
moreUBS Reports Slowing Bizav Flight Activity
September 30, 2008
According to UBS Investment Research’s business jet update issued on Friday, U.S. and international bizjet flight activity was “sharply lower” in August. However, about 86 percent of the flights UBS tracked were domestic flights within the U.S., meaning the international sampling is somewhat under-represented. Analyst David Strauss noted that total cycles...
moreOperators ‘Non-positive’ about ADS-B
September 30, 2008
A cost-benefit case for ADS-B equipage of general aviation aircraft cannot be made, concluded an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) in a report published last week. Analysis of public comments relating to the FAA’s September 2007 ADS-B NPRM showed 101 positive and 1,271 “non-positive” responses. Sources tell AIN that most commenters regarded the plan as...
moreHouse Panel Focuses Again on Runway Incursions
September 30, 2008
A near runway collision between a United Airlines regional jet and a Cessna 172 at Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) in Allentown, Pa., on September 19 underscored testimony by a top government official on Friday that “the risk of runway incursions is still high.” Gerald Dillingham, director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government...
moreRAA Objects To DOT Urine Testing Procedure
September 26, 2008
The Regional Airline Association (RAA) has joined the Air Transport Association in asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to withdraw its planned rule requiring airlines representatives to “directly observe” employee urination for the purpose of drug testing. “Our member airlines have worked hard to develop corporate cultures built on trust and...
moreCongress Extends FAA Funding Until March 31
September 25, 2008
The House and Senate agreed earlier this week to extend FAA programs and current aviation taxes on fuel and airline tickets for another six months, to March 31, and sent the bill to President Bush for his signature. Without an extension, the FAA would lose the authority to collect the taxes and to spend nearly $7.9 billion over the next six months. The...
moreNextGen Taking Shape at Embry-Riddle
September 25, 2008
The NextGen testbed facility at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach campus is gearing up for a demonstration in November that will advance en route automation modernization (ERAM) and traffic management advisor (TMA) capabilities. ERAM, a replacement for the FAA’s Host computer, is expected to be installed at all 20 U.S. en route centers by...
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