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GAO, NATCA Spar over Privatized ATC
A Government Accountability Office study of five foreign air navigation service providers, including Nav Canada, found that since “commercialization,” all
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MAC Recommends Tracon Consolidation
The FAA’s industry-government Management Advisory Council (MAC) is recommending that the agency take several steps to save money, including consolidating s
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GA Leaders To Advise on Future ATC System
Leaders of several general aviation groups have been named to help the FAA Joint Planning and Development Office create a next generation air transportatio
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DOT readies for more congestion and delays
With Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead predicting the busiest summer travel season in six years, the Senate aviation subcommittee ha
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UK Pegs Majority of Bizav ATC Errors
New data by UK ATC provider NATS shows that business jets are more likely than others to be involved in certain types of safety incident.
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Hangar Flying: SATS Progress Report
SATS, the small aircraft transportation system research program funded jointly by industry and government, concludes later this year, five years after it s
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Inmarsat conference addresses future of in-flight communication
The six-ton I-4 communications satellite Inmarsat launched in late March has taken over satcom transmission routing responsibility from the previous I-3 sa
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Inter-agency financing debate could delay progress on loran
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows.
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Collins’s Latest Satcom Makes Debut Aboard Global 5000
Rockwell Collins’s new SAT-6100 satellite communication system made its world debut aboard the Bombardier Global 5000 at the Paris Air Show last month.
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FAA DecommissionsMore than 200 NDB Approaches
In a cost-cutting move, the FAA last month decommissioned 216 NDB approaches across the U.S.
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FAA Tests New Type of TrafficCollision Alerting System
The FAA has completed the first round of flight testing of a unique traffic collision avoidance system that combines automatic dependent surveillance-broad
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DFW Tracon Bosses Covered ATC Errors
The Inspector General (IG) of the Transportation Department has found that managers at the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Tracon systematically covered up operati
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Radar Staffing Change Won’t Affect Safety
The FAA plans to halt around-the-clock technical staffing of the Pico del Este long-range radar in Puerto Rico.
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FAA implements ATOP system in New York area
A new oceanic ATC system that will eventually allow controllers to reduce separation minimums over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has gone fully operation
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FAA plans for airspace transformation by 2025
Where will aviation be in 20 years? What will the traffic mix look like in 2025? How many airplanes, how many passengers, how many airports, how many runwa
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NGATS Institute selects leader
The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Institute, which will work with the FAA’s Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to design and
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A New Look for the National Airspace System?
In the ongoing debate about what the next generation air transportation system (NGATS) should entail, the Air Traffic Control Association held a symposium
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FAA, controllers’ union face off at NY Tracon
The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association are at loggerheads over an FAA report describing staffing levels, scheduling abnormalities, ex
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Rnav advisory circular brings headaches
The FAA’s grandiose agenda to streamline operations in congested U.S.
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China Asks FAA for Helpwith RVSM Implementation
Now that much of the world has applied reduced vertical separation minimums (RVSM) standards in the upper flight levels, it was only a matter of time befor
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Controllers might need more training
While most speakers discussed current training issues and new learning concepts at the Air Traffic Control Association’s recent “ATC Training for the Futur
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Texas Aeromed Op Gets IFR Approach OK
Air medical service operator CareFlite, based in Grand Prairie, Texas, received final approval for its network of 17 IFR approach procedures to hospitals w
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ATC must prove merits of TIPH
The FAA said its notice sent last month to tower controllers to review the taxi into position and hold (TIPH) procedure is not intended to end the practice
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Chances on tap for Class B airspace
A supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking modifies previously proposed (Nov.
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Judge Upholds FSS Consolidation
Judge Edwin Neill of the Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition has denied protests by the union representing flight service station (FSS) employees
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Controllers vow to fight FAA-imposed contract
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) called the FAA’s imposition of new work rules over the Labor Day weekend “a brazen, arrogant tramp
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Comair crash may lead to broader use of runway alerting systems
Honeywell hopes the Comair crash prods airline executives to take a closer look at a software upgrade for its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGP
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Industry voices concerns about the future of ADS-B
The FAA announced in August that it expects to award its ADS-B ground station contract (estimated to be for up to 500 ground stations) next July.
