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Welcome to NATCA ZFW
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Welcome to the ZFW NATCA Local website. Air Traffic Controllers at the Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZFW), which began operations at our present location in March 1962, direct aircraft flying in a 147,000-square-mile area that covers portions of five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico).
 On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies above the United States. At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the U.S. Only one-third are commercial carriers, like American, United or Southwest, the rest being general aviation, air taxis, military aircraft, cargo planes, helicopters, etc. America's sophisticated air traffic control system handles more than half of the world's air traffic and cargo. The men and women who make up our national air traffic control workforce ensure the safety of nearly 600 million aviation passengers per year.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 10:40 |
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By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Looking to demonstrate their commitment to balancing the budget, Republicans are increasingly targeting the federal workforce.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:18 |
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Poor leadership and funding make it unlikely modernization of the air traffic control system will meet its 2025 deadline, officials told Congress.
By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek
April 22, 2010 02:34 PM
An ambitious project to build a next-generation air traffic control system has run into a snag due to poor leadership, limited funding, and other challenges that make it unlikely to be completed on schedule, a panel of witnesses told a House subcommittee this week.
NextGen is a plan to overhaul the stressed and outdated air-traffic control system in the United States by 2025.
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:18 |
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Posted by Janice Wood · May 24, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has awarded former FAA Administrator Jane Garvey with its Sentinel of Safety Award, its highest honor for those outside of the organization who have displayed outstanding achievements in the advancement of aviation safety.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:16 |
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By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor
April 21, the Transportation Department Inspector General, Calvin Scovel, spoke before a House panel regarding the cost and progress of key NextGen technologies and what he had to say wasn't all good. According to Scovel, the En Route Automation Modernization system (ERAM), set to be a major part of the FAA's NextGen system, is experiencing trouble at its Salt Lake City launch site. ERAM is costing the FAA $14 million per month in bug fixes and other deployments, and is likely to be deployed behind schedule. Also, according to Scovel, the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure program may not work well with NextGen programs. That system suffered a failure last November that delayed more than 800 flights. The two projects together account for a $4.6 billion stake in NextGen's estimated $40 billion cost. The failings, according to Scovel, can in part be blamed on failure of the FAA to effectively oversee contractors and may result in significant cascading delays.
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