California air traffic facilities rely on trainees

The nation's busiest air traffic control facility in Southern California relies heavily on inexperienced trainees, who are expected to make up more than 40 percent of controllers there later this year, according to a report released Monday.

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WHAT is it about "flying cars" that makes otherwise sensible engineers lose touch with reality? Ever since Glenn Curtiss, a seaplane pioneer, racing legend and the Wright brothers' rival, tried to make a flying car early in the last century, tinkerers have dreamed of having …

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Where is UFO country? PM went to the Center for UFO Studies' database to find out where the top counties for UFO spotting reside and how they coincide with air traffic control boundaries. Here are the top regions for UFO spots along with tips on how to report a sighting.

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YORK, England, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- An English pilot who was temporarily blinded by a stroke while he was 15,000 feet over Yorkshire was guided back to ground by a Royal Air Force plane.

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An airport has been accused of taking political correctness too far, after advertising for a new air traffic controller in Braille.

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A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system last week was partly due to a "design anomaly" in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

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A Chicago-bound jet came within seconds of a midair collision at 25,000 feet over Indiana, but a cockpit safety device alerted the pilots flying the other plane of the danger ahead, officials said Wednesday.

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Both the captain and first officer of a commercial airline flight from Baltimore to Denver fell asleep as their Airbus A319 headed toward DIA at over 600 miles per hour, according to a report filed by the flight's captain.

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With U.S. flights projected to double in the next 20 years, the Federal Aviation Administration says that the current air-traffic-control system will be effectively gridlocked by 2015.

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As air travelers' summer of hell draws to a close, stories of canceled flights, lost luggage and late arrivals abound. But while it might seem that the whole system is a mess, which carriers are actually the biggest culprits?

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The Federal Aviation Administration cleared all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis on Tuesday, grounding an unknown number of flights around the country, because communications equipment had failed at the regional air-traffic control center there.

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"The federal government is expected this week to award a contract worth more than $1 billion to build the key components of its next-generation air traffic control system -- a high-tech network that officials say will alleviate chronic flight delays.

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As air traffic increases, so do close calls, including a recent incident in New York when two planes nearly collided.

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Airline pilots have told the BBC they are increasingly concerned that fatigue is leading to potentially dangerous incidents in the air.

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"Last year was the worst in history for airline delays," Blakey told the gathered press. "And we know that we are going to have a tough summer ahead" of late flights and missed connections. Make sure you bring a good book with you when you travel.

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LiveATC.net is a web site for pilots, flight instructors and real and virtual air traffic controllers. If you like listening to live aviation communications from lots of places, this is pretty cool.

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Two airliners had to circle for 18 minutes and a plane ferrying human lungs for transplant was briefly delayed Friday while an airport's lone air traffic controller took a bathroom break, the controller's union said.

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At 8:37 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, communications officers at the Air Force center responsible for defending a region of the United States that ranges from Memphis to Maine were discussing sofas and slip covers.

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During a 25-minute silence at early last Tuesday morning, the air-traffic controller in the tower didn't respond to radio or phone calls.

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Change introduced for WAAS users gives operational capability close to a Category 1 instrument landing system

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Investigations continue into why A310 was far below required height during UK approach

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At Wednesday's unveiling of the Air Transport Assn.'s Smart Skies initiative, which calls for, among other things, a more equitable funding of the Airport and Airways Trust Fund through fees tied to operation frequencies and flight times (ATWOnline, March 9), CEO James May predi

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The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday eased up on imminent plans to impose revised airport procedures aimed at reducing the risk of an arriving airplane flying over or landing on top of another plane waiting on a runway to depart.

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