Obama's Willingness to Sacrifice Aviation Interests Continues

Here we go again! You're going to hear a lot about this in the next few days, but it appears that the White House has included aviation user fees for general aviation use of air traffic control services in President Obama's fiscal year 2015 spending proposal. The budget proposal states that its purpose is: “To more equitably distribute the cost of air traffic services across the aviation user community, the Administration proposes to establish a new surcharge for air traffic services of $100 per flight. Military aircraft, public aircraft, piston aircraft, air ambulances, aircraft operating outside of controlled airspace, and Canada-to- Canada flights would be exempt.”

“With the line moving and this team in place we can now start to make some serious progress toward our goal of building a world-class operation.” Source: Mooney aircraft CEO Dr. Jerry Chen, announcing his leadership team.

Safety Alerts for Operators published by the FAA often contain critical aviation safety related information that the FAA has determined  that various aircraft operators need to know.

SETI@home

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space.