Over the next 10 years, the FAA expects to hire and train air
traffic controllers more efficiently and will staff each air
traffic facility with the appropriate number of controllers to
offset an expected wave of air traffic controller
retirements...
After hearing from AOPA and other users, the Department of
Defense (DOD) is going to accept comments on its proposal to stop
public distribution of Department of Defense flight information
publications (FLIP) and the digital aeronautical flight information
file (DAFIF) in October 2005.
By PATCO President Ron Taylor
The FAA has just released its 97-page report entitled "A Plan
For The Future, The FAA Ten Year Strategy For The Air Traffic
Controller Workforce." These guys are still operating in a time
warp and this brainstorm idea has all the characteristics of what
they said they were going to do, back during the PATCO strike of
1981 and the promise to rebuild the ATC system even better than
ever, so let’s try this again.
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