Like many projects in air-travel modernization, there's a chicken-and-egg question: Should airlines spend money on equipment before air-traffic control agencies prove they can work with it, or should air-traffic control service providers spend first and then wait for airlines to catch up?
At a time when planes are becoming more crowded, air traffic is growing and air traffic control con- tinues to be run with obsolete technology, gratuitously retiring veteran pilots is both preposterous and an air-safety hazard.
The administration's funding authorization expires Sept. 30, and it needs more money to address the booming volume of air traffic, primarily because the air traffic control system needs safety and security upgrades.
Air traffic was growing, and the air traffic control (ATC) system couldn't handle the swelling volume.
Aviation experts contend that even if intruders were able to access a control tower and disrupt operations, the nation's air traffic control system is designed with multiple back-ups so that other facilities could pick up control of the affected air space.
Arrested after a police chase, Lohr is facing accusations of felony vehicular eluding and three traffic offenses -- reckless driving, speeding and failing to obey a traffic control devise, the sheriff's office said.
The Southampton researchers have now developed 'machine learning' traffic control computers that can learn how to control the lights like a human would and even learn their own improved strategies through experience.
It will link cars to the city's traffic control centre and divert drivers away from traffic jams and accidents.
Among the most dramatic of Bush's proposals is a fee that the Federal Aviation Administration would charge airlines to help pay for new air traffic control services, which are becoming strained by an increasing volume of air traffic.
The A387 at Sandplace Road has been closed while the B3253 St Martin's Hill is under traffic light control, letting one lane of traffic through at a time.
It implements our traffic management plan, where we rely upon hundreds of law enforcement agencies to control traffic and ensure that those main evacuation routes are monitored and traffic is kept flowing.
Peter Roberts, of North Wales Traffic Control, said falling icicles were a real danger.
The statement points out that many FAA air traffic control facilities are inside airport security areas.
Petersburg airport's air-traffic control tower, which then notified Tampa International Airport, Tampa police said.
Any flight outside of these very tight parameters requires permission from the air traffic control.
He was speaking after talks with Eurocontrol, which co-ordinates air traffic control in 38 nations.
By the runway, a brand new air traffic control tower needed to be built.
Air traffic control grants the request, and I point the airplane's nose over Lake Erie.
Usually smooth on the radio, I boot my first call to air traffic control.
Suddenly I have an inspiration: Ask air traffic control (ATC) to be diverted to Minneapolis.
It's airlines versus corporate jets in a Capitol Hill dogfight over the air traffic control system.
"It's like air traffic control on water, " says Geir Karlsen, BP's expert on such operations.
Contract controllers are a widely used but little-known part of the FAA's air traffic control system.
Actual flight performance has gotten more unpredictable because of problems in the air-traffic control system.
Those passengers will now be thrilled to learn what the FAA was funding instead of air-traffic control.
Hackers and security researchers have warned for years of vulnerabilities in next-generation air traffic control protocols.
But DOT claims it has already used this flexibility and still can't avoid cuts to air-traffic control.
Additionally, air-traffic control towers at 149 smaller airports nationwide are slated to be closed starting April 7.
The Bureau of Labor, in its occupational projections, advises young people against careers in air traffic control.
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