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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #51
Topics include: concerns over FAA's plan for ADS-B; Inspector General on general aviation's ATC usage; the staffed "virtual tower"; controller hiring
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #50
Topics include: FAA budget woes-again; the $25 modernization surcharge; a GPS backup plan; environmental benefits of ATC reform; runway capacity and ATC modernization; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #49
Topics include: an economist's approach to ATC reform; fixing runway incursions; world's best ATC providers; implementation failure--a warning for NextGen; misrepresenting air traffic delays; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #48
Topics include: blaming weather for ATC delays; controller salaries; business jets expanding in user-fee countries; faster implementation of ADS-B; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #47
Topics include: aviation elder statesmen call for fundamental ATC reforms; business/personal jets and ATC congestion; backup for GPS getting closer; airlines' strange new funding proposal; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #46
Topics include: House version of FAA reauthorization; paying for ATC services; Congress blocking facility consolidation; user fees and Europe's bizjet boom; rationing airspace has begun; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #45
Topics include: three keys to ATC reform; a funding crunch or not?; cost of billing (a huge new bureaucracy?); governance-the real issue; why we need arms-length safety regulation; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #44
Topics include: Senate FAA reauthorization bill; cracks in the general aviation anti-reform monolith?; glitches in flight service modernization; breaking the mold on controller training?; moving NextGen from concept to implementation; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #43
Topics include: governance reform; responsibility for controller fatique; alternatives for ADS-B; FAA outsources RNP development; overflight fees; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #42
Topics include: responding to user fee critics; the need for real bonding for ATC Modernization; commercialization vs. privatization of ATC; what a Russ Chew is really worth; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #41
Topics include: FAA's funding proposal; a "manufactured" funding crisis?; the controller retirement problem; the departure of Russ Chew; boom times for European business aviation; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #40
Topics include: the urgency of ATC reform; ATC funding challenges; yet another "controller shortage;" progress on aviation weather; sequenced landings; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #39
Topics include: Nav Canada's 10th anniversary; financing the NextGen ATC system; clear thinking on ATC User Fees; beefing up the controller workforce; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #38
Topics include: mixed messages on funding Next-Generation system; contract towers' dramatic safety record; lessons from the D.C. airports restructuring; a cost-effective backup for GPS-based navigation; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #37
Topics include: lessons from Lexington, ATC reform lessons from Canada & U.K.; runway incursions and operational errors; far off benefits from ADS-B; and other news.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #36
Topics include: benefits of ATC reform, user fees for business aviation; the Mineta Commission report, ten years later; System Wide Information Management; and ATC privatization advances in Europe.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #35
Topics include: ATC overload likely result of growth in very light jets; "base closing commission needed for ATC; speeding up RNP routes; the ATC funding crunch; and NATCA's losing contract battle.
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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #34
Topics include: NATCA's contract gamble backfires; paying for the next generation ATC system; getting control of controllers' schedules; and business aviation prospering despite higher costs.
