Larry Dighera wrote:

FAA Administrator Blakey Reduces Safety In The Name Of Procedural
Conformance

ADS-B was removed from radar screens after 7 years of successful
operation "because it appeared controllers were operating outside the
scope of their authorization to separate the traffic."

And we're supposed to believe this Bush appointee has safety at the
forefront of her agenda?

What that governmentspeak really means is that the procedures for using
ADS-B were found to be lacking. This happens from time to time with any
piece of equipment. For example we are going to open a new tower
here in Billings the second week of August. We are getting this god
awful piece of equipment called an electronic drop tube. We don't have
one now, we use the low tech version, a hole in the console where we
drop a strip holder from the tower controller to the radar controller.
This new piece of equipment has necessitated a total rewrite of our
procedures, several hundred man hours have already been expended. If at
some future point after the tower opens we discover something we didn't
think of that makes this new piece of equipment unreliable or
potentially unsafe we will stop using it until the problem is fixed.
That's what happened with ADS-B. Something got discovered and they are
fixing it.