Thu, Nov 04, 2010
In a October 19, 2010, address to the National Business Aviation
Association, FAA Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt expanded his
familiar aero-stump speech to a crowd assembled for the this year's
reinvigorated BizAv convention. His speech covered a lot of ground
but was based in the usual topics this Administrator has emphasized
time and time again when his audience is an aeronautical one.
Babbitt started his address by noting that when "the NBAA formed
in 1947, the industry was just starting to grow after World War II.
The United States Air Force had just become its own department. The
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser debuted that year. And Chuck Yeager broke
the sound barrier. The founders of this organization met at The
Wings Club in New York and realized that to be successful, they
would have to chart a course for the role of business aviation.
They didn’t know exactly how the industry would evolve.
But they knew that business aviation would help companies visit
customers more efficiently, make sales more easily and service
their products more quickly in order to stay ahead of the
competition."
From there Babbitt emphasized his concerns over the building of
the Next-Gen ATC environment, emphasizing the already growing role
of WAAS, RNP and the fact that, "We have published more than 2,000
new satellite-based WAAS-LPV approaches and departures at more than
800 airports in the United States. There are now more WAAS-LPV
procedures than ILS procedures in the country."
Babbitt also covered his concerns over pilot fatigue and the
fact that the BizAv community will need to address this issue as
well as a litany of safety concerns that continue to be a popular
theme for this Administrator. Join Aero-TV as we feature Babbitt's
remarks from the podium at NBAA2010.
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