The FAA took a half-step in that direction in 2008, creating a nonpunitive reporting system for air traffic controllers.
The FAA put a ground stop in place briefly to change the runway configuration at Logan Airport, but has lifted it.
Earlier this year, the FAA launched a limited test in Memphis, Tenn.
The FAA said a software problem was responsible for that computer crash.
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Last Friday, the FAA announced a comprehensive review of the 787's critical systems with the possibility of further action pending new data and information.
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Earlier this year, it petitioned the FAA for a special 80-mile corridor where it could let the drones go wild, reports Talking Points Memo.
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The FAA announced a safety review of the aircraft last week.
On Friday, the FAA arranged a second conference call, retracting without explanation the earlier call, according to Spencer Dickerson, head of the U.S. Control Tower Association.
In July, the FAA said a new air traffic control center serving the busy New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas would be built somewhere in New York.
Though the furloughs could end immediately under the bill, the FAA expects a lingering period of delays due to staffing changes, particularly in New York, Chicago, Tampa and the Southwest region.
He said the FAA initiated a 120-day Special Emphasis Review of the airline February 22, because of ValuJet's explosive growth and because of four safety-related incidents in January and February of this year.
Officials from Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry and the FAA conducted a site inspection of GS Yuasa's headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, on Monday and Tuesday, said Yasuo Ishii of Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau.
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Until the FAA announces a policy revision, we all have no choice but to reluctantly comply with the ban, but with devices like Google Glass on the horizon, updated restrictions could not come too soon.
American said it told the Federal Aviation Administration that it was holding its flights, and the FAA instituted a nationwide "ground stop, " holding all American flights at their origin airports until the order was canceled at most airports at about 5 p.m.
"It's a good, positive step, " said Michael Goldfarb, a former FAA chief of staff who now heads a consulting business in Washington.
The FAA cowers like a sheriff in a town recently run over by the James Gang.
The FAA responded in a statement, saying that since September 11, it has increased security at many air traffic facilities.
The announcement came even before FAA investigators had a chance to examine the battery on the second airliner that recently caught fire.
Laser event reports have increased steadily since 2005, when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) created a formal reporting system to collect information from pilots.
The FAA chuckles when a good pilot whiffs on these knuckleballs.
The accident happened in an area which is not under air traffic control, a FAA official who did not want to be identified discussing the details of the accident told CNN.
The FAA is chasing a constantly receding finish line.
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So, even though Congress ordered the FAA to issue a rule prohibiting airline flight crews from personal use of electronic devices in the cockpit in January of last year, no rule has been issued to date.
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With the advent of new and evolving electronic technology, and because the airlines have not conducted the testing necessary to approve the use of new devices, the FAA is taking a fresh look at the use of personal electronic devices, other than cellphones, on aircraft.
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"If the Wright brothers were starting out today they'd never get off the ground, " fumes Ky Michaelson, who spent two years dickering with bureaucrats at an offshoot of the FAA to get a license to launch to 390, 000 feet, well past the boundary zone between the Earth's atmosphere and space.
So as he said at the top, that would mean -- because the FAA is such a big chunk of the Department of Transportation and unavoidably would be affected by furloughs -- that you would have only the number of takeoffs and landings that the system could bear with a reduced staff.
But Spencer Dickerson, the head of a contract tower association, said top FAA officials made clear in a Monday conference call that the agency intends to close contract 173 towers on April 7, and another 16 towers on September 30, the end of the fiscal year.
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In 2007, the NTSB, citing a series of fatigue-related air traffic control incidents, implored the FAA to reform its scheduling practices and implement a fatigue-management program, but the FAA took no action.
The subject of FAA enforcement is coordinating a draft response with the inspector initiating the case?
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In December 2010, Randy Babbit, FAA administrator, was a guest blogger for Fast Lane.
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