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2024-10-02Certain college grads can now be air traffic controllers immediately
The FAA air traffic control tower at Orlando International Airport. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP The Federal Aviation Administration says that graduates of two college air traffic control programs can now bypass the agency’s backlogged training academy. The new announcement is the FAA’s latest move to tackle air traffic controller shortages that have plagued the air travel -
2024-09-01GAO 24-107001: FAA Actions Are Urgently Needed to Modernize Aging Systems
GAO report to Congressional committees identifying that 76% of FAA’s air traffic control systems are unsustainable or potentially unsustainable, with 58 systems having critical operational impacts on safety and efficiency. The report highlights urgent need for modernization following a 2023 national airspace shutdown due to aging system outage. -
2024-05-14FAA still short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, new federal numbers show
The air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg/Getty Images Gregory Wallace, CNN Updated 3:38 PM EDT, Tue May 14, 2024 Despite a surge in hiring last year, air traffic control stations nationwide are still about 3,000 controllers short, according to new -
2024-04-05Deciphering the FAA’s wildly complex aviation maps
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aviation maps. Intended for pilots, the FAA publishes free detailed maps of the entire U.S. airspace, and detailed maps of airports and their surroundings and updates them frequently. The density -
Boeing is under fire after Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout. So is the FAA
By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times staff reporter Nearly a week after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 aircraft midflight, lawmakers and federal regulators are starting to look to the Boeing plane’s troubled history to understand what happened — and what didn’t. On Thursday, fingers started pointing. The Federal Aviation Administration announced -
2023-12-13FAA Has Made Progress Verifying Compliance With Aviation Fuel Tax Requirements, but Challenges Remain With Testing and Enforcement
A Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General audit report examining FAA’s oversight of aviation fuel tax compliance. The report finds that while FAA has made progress confirming state and local government law compliance, the agency has not tested whether jurisdictions use fuel tax proceeds according to approved action plans and has not taken enforcement -
2023-12-13FAA Has Made Progress Verifying Compliance With Aviation Fuel Tax Requirements, but Challenges Remain With Testing and Enforcement
A Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General audit report examining FAA’s oversight of aviation fuel tax compliance. The report finds that while FAA has made progress confirming state and local government law compliance, the agency has not tested whether jurisdictions use fuel tax proceeds according to approved action plans and has not taken enforcement -
2023-09-27Comments on the FAA’s Noise Policy Review
Written comments submitted by Vashon Island Fair Skies to the FAA regarding noise policy review, focusing on ambient noise considerations and challenges in modeling airframe noise generation for aircraft arrivals. The document criticizes the current DNL metric and discusses technical issues with Sound Exposure Level calculations and airframe noise modeling. -
2023-09-27Comments on the FAA’s Noise Policy Review
Written comments submitted by Vashon Island Fair Skies to the FAA regarding noise policy review, focusing on ambient noise considerations and challenges in modeling airframe noise generation for aircraft arrivals. The document criticizes the current DNL metric and discusses technical issues with Sound Exposure Level calculations and airframe noise modeling. -
Senator wants to reroute flights away from Southwest Boise, where he lives
By KEVIN FIXLER McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Twice each decade, Congress approves a bill to fund and set the policies for the federal agency that oversees the nation’s air travel. This year, one airport was singled out in a standalone section marked “miscellaneous” in the Senate version of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act.