This article came from Dan Pimentel and his Av8rdan's World of Flying. Click here to visit his blog.
After asking a number of pilots to take my ATC survey and examining the results, a pattern has emerged that do not find surprising. The vast majority of pilots give our Air Traffic Controllers high marks, with 77.7% assigning a grade of A- or better. In fact, nobody that took the survey gave ATC a grade lower than a B.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate former pilots' union chief Randy Babbitt to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the White House said on Friday.
Babbitt, a consultant who led the Air Line Pilots Association in the 1990s, would become the top safety regulator of passenger and cargo airlines.
He would also be responsible for management of the sprawling U.S. air traffic control network.
The FAA is responsible for coordinating air space for more than 30,000 commercial flights per day.
WASHINGTON - The federal government plans to block public access to its records of aircraft and bird collisions such as the one that forced a US Airways jet to splashdown in New York's Hudson River in January.
WASHINGTON – NATCA’s top safety and technology expert, former Atlanta and Charlotte air traffic controller Dale Wright, reaffirmed for the Senate Aviation Subcommittee today the union’s full support of the NextGen air traffic control system and said, "we believe that NATCA must be an active participant." He outlined specifically why that is critically important to NextGen’s success.
March 25 - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today reiterated that the immediate priorities of a new FAA Administrator are resolving the dispute with air traffic controllers and getting to the Next Generation Air Transportation System.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association and the Federal Aviation Administration have tentatively agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement...
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