With Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead predicting the busiest summer travel season in six years, the Senate aviation subcommittee has been warned that capacity constraints are likely to cause congestion and get progressively worse before they get better.
Airport
October 9, 2006 - 6:45am
On June 25, the tallest general aviation control tower in the U.S. was dedicated at Front Range Airport, Colo. The structure, operated under the FAA’s contract tower program, stands more than 5,596 feet msl and nearly 200 feet agl. Airport officials believe the tower will be an inducement for business jet operators who do not typically use uncontrolled airports.
October 9, 2006 - 6:33am
The City of Chicago settled an FAA enforcement action that arose after it bulldozed Meigs Field’s runway on March 30, 2003. The city agreed to pay $33,000, assessed for failure to provide advance notice of changes to the airport, although under terms of the settlement the city admits no violation.
October 9, 2006 - 5:31am
Charter operator Executive Jet Management has broken the 100 managed-aircraft threshold. With the recent addition of a Citation X in Chicago and a Falcon 900EX in San Francisco, the Cincinnati-based company now manages 101 aircraft at more than 60 U.S. airports.
October 9, 2006 - 4:48am
• General aviation operations will be limited to 24 arrivals and 24 departures each day.
• Pilots must be pre-certified under a program similar to the Twelve-Five program.
• Flight plans and crew manifests must be filed 24 hours in advance.
• Aircraft will be swept and crew, baggage and passengers will undergo screening at the gateway airports before departure.
October 9, 2006 - 4:21am
Proposed noise mitigation measures under study by the Los Angeles World Airport Authority do not contain an outright ban on Stage 2 jets at Van Nuys Airport. However, the airport authority’s goal of establishing a maximum daytime noise limit of 77 dBA for all aircraft operations at the airport effectively bans Stage 2 jets.
October 6, 2006 - 7:43am
Both sides claimed a measure of victory in the June 3 U.S. Court of Appeals ruling, but the Naples (Fla.) Airport Authority (NAA) is crowing much louder than representatives of general aviation. The court decision upheld the NAA ban on Stage 2 jets–a ban disputed by the FAA and a host of aviation advocacy groups, including NBAA.
October 5, 2006 - 11:08am
The FAA has rejected all four proposals the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) made to limit traffic at Teterboro Airport (TEB). Anthony Coscia, PANYNJ chairman, made the recommendations at a hearing of the senate legislative oversight committee on June 20.
October 5, 2006 - 10:41am
The site allows users to search for information by five means: country name, country abbreviation, city name, airport name or airport code. Selecting from that menu automatically produces a page listing the airport name, code, city, country, runway length and elevation, latitude/longitude and GMT differential. The site currently has almost 10,000 airports in its database.
October 5, 2006 - 10:34am
It used to be Signature’s busiest location– by far. The FBO at Ronald Reagan Washington National has seen on its ramp everyone from presidents, ex-presidents and captains of industry to weekend pilots with their families visiting the nation’s capital.
