Showing posts with label FAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAA. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2014

Flying Car

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They are really gonna build one.  The Terrafugia Transition, a two seat light plane with folding wings that can be driven on the highway.  T...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Let them eat plastic

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Gopher tortoises that is.  These are foot long, nine pound grass eating turtles.  They love the long grass adjacent to the runways at Orland...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Flight safety or political retailiation?

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Ted Cruz accused the Obama administration of  forbidding US airlines to fly into Tel Aviv in order to pressure Israel over the Gaza strip.  ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

FAA sniffs at Amazon's package delivery drone

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After an avalanche of good press from Amazon's video clip of a small whirry helicopter type drone landing a package at a customer's ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Next Gen succumbs to budget cuts.

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Next Gen is the FAA's plan to completely redo the national air traffic control system.  Under Next Gen, each aircraft would be required ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Airline money sink, GEN-X

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GEN-X is the FAA scheme to modernize the entire US air traffic control system.  Today's system works on ground radar stations, straight ...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

1500 hours = $150,000

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FAA is going to demand pilots have 1500 flying hours in order to fly airliners, even as a co pilot.  That's a lot of time.  That's 3...