AOPA: Flight Services Won't Get Better And Could Get Worse
Last week, the House passed the Transportation-Treasury-Housing
Appropriations bill with the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT). And it means, in plain English, that the FAA would
be forced to terminate the FSS modernization contract with
Lockheed-Martin, the taxpayers would pay a $350 million penalty to
Lockheed, and pilots would continue to suffer through interminable
hold times and briefers who don't have access to all the data in
the system.