An updated list of documents and requirements has been posted regarding the FAA’s project entitled:
“ADS-B Air to Air Capabilities – Acceleration of Surface Conflict Detection and Cockpit Alert Capabilities. Identification of Performance Requirements”
This will obviously be essential for the industry reps who are gathering on September 3 for a mini-trade show on this issue at [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 30, 2008
Contract opportunity: ADS-B Air to Air Capabilities
August 30, 2008
On the record: Mixed reactions to Tuesday’s outage
The AP’s Joelle Tessler and Jordan Robertson filed a follow-up story Friday that includes a variety of quotes on the significance of Tuesday’s glitch at the FAA’s flight plan filing center in Georgia. A few excerpts:
“If this (FAA outage) happened at a power plant, I’d be telling them to open up their checkbook and expect to [...]
August 30, 2008
Near miss: Fresno
Runway incursion in Fresno, Skywest jet vs. Piper Malibu, came within 15 feet.
August 30, 2008
AOPA’s Boyer cites JPDO in lobbying for a “special emphasis” on GA
It might be a slight stretch, but AOPA President Phil Boyer is claiming a shared vision with the JPDO over the future of America’s smaller GA airports. In an open letter to Acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell (press release), Boyer argues for a
special emphasis on preserving and improving America’s general aviation airports [and] increasing all-weather access [...]
August 27, 2008
System failure delays ‘hundreds’ of flights
Reuters reports schedules are returning to normal after Tuesday’s 4.5-hour system failure of the National Airspace Data Interchange Network(NADIN) in Hampton, GA.
The cause of the failure was not known but it was not due to a computer hacking attack, said Hank Krakowski, chief operations officer for the FAA’s air traffic division.
“It appears to be an internal [...]
August 15, 2008
Everything you ever wanted to know about FDMS
If you want or need to understand the basic concepts underlying Flight Deck-based Merging and Spacing (FDMS), you can’t do better than this document written by John Marksteiner and Randall Bone from the FAA’s FDMS development group. It’s comprehensive, clearly formulated, and really just plain fascinating. There’s too much good material to excerpt properly, but [...]
August 2, 2008
FAA’s Sturgell on NextGen: “We’re making solid progress”
A dispatch from Oshkosh, courtesy of Aero-News Network, quotes Acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell on NextGen:
“I can say that we’re making solid progress. The foundational technologies are either already in place or will be soon enough. They include WAAS, which provides increased airport access in reduced visibility conditions. We’ve published over 1,000 WAAS LPV procedures [...]
