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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletters


  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #51
    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

    By Robert Poole
    March 1, 2008

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #50
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    February 1, 2008

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #49
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    January 1, 2008

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #48
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    October 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #47
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    September 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #46
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    July 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #45
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    June 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #44
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    May 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #43
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    April 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #42
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    March 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #41
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    February 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #40
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    January 1, 2007

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #39
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    November 1, 2006

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #38
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    October 1, 2006

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #37
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    September 1, 2006

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #36
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    July 1, 2006

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #35
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    June 1, 2006

  • Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #34
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    May 1, 2006

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