Blakey explains

Also, the WWII labor intensive technology is what employs the union labor.
There have been rational proposals for free flight, monitored by computers,
with many improved safety and reduced labor.


"tscottme" wrote in message
. ..
| She's safely blaming the politically-correct cause and not the real
| culprits. Over-scheduled departures, ground holds due to weather on the
| other side of the country, etc.
|
| --
|
| Scott
|
| Growing corn to make ethanol to fuel a car is like heating your house by
| burning money in your fireplace. Yes, it can be done but it makes no
| economic sense.
| "Steve" wrote in message
| ...
| From today's issue of Parade 'magazine' (in the Sunday paper):
|
| Q: What has gone wrong with air travel?
|
| A: (from Marion Blakey) We're in the safest period in aviation
| history, but some of our current system is built on World War II
| technology. **Planes must fly on specific highways in the sky to
| maintain contact with the ground.** It costs time and fuel and is
| inefficient.
| [emphasis added]
|
|
|

(ignoring the ranters)


The point was:

"Planes must fly on specific highways in the sky to maintain contact
with the ground."

as an explaination of current IFR procedures.


- Steve



On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:22:41 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

Also, the WWII labor intensive technology is what employs the union labor.
There have been rational proposals for free flight, monitored by computers,
with many improved safety and reduced labor.


"tscottme" wrote in message
...
| She's safely blaming the politically-correct cause and not the real
| culprits. Over-scheduled departures, ground holds due to weather on the
| other side of the country, etc.
|
| --
|
| Scott
|
| Growing corn to make ethanol to fuel a car is like heating your house by
| burning money in your fireplace. Yes, it can be done but it makes no
| economic sense.
| "Steve" wrote in message
| ...
| From today's issue of Parade 'magazine' (in the Sunday paper):
|
| Q: What has gone wrong with air travel?
|
| A: (from Marion Blakey) We're in the safest period in aviation
| history, but some of our current system is built on World War II
| technology. **Planes must fly on specific highways in the sky to
| maintain contact with the ground.** It costs time and fuel and is
| inefficient.
| [emphasis added]
|
|
|

Steve wrote:
(ignoring the ranters)


The point was:

"Planes must fly on specific highways in the sky to maintain contact
with the ground."

as an explaination of current IFR procedures.


- Steve

**** poor explanation of IFR procedures. I presume she meant ATC by
"ground." But, I am not sure of that, either.

So, if that is what she meant, then does that mean if I do direct, my
radios short out?

She is totally inept.

"Sam Spade" wrote in message
...

**** poor explanation of IFR procedures. I presume she meant ATC by
"ground." But, I am not sure of that, either.

So, if that is what she meant, then does that mean if I do direct, my
radios short out?

She is totally inept.


Hey, give her a break. She didn't enter the aviation industry until she
became FAA administrator.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
...

....

Hey, give her a break. She didn't enter the aviation industry until she
became FAA administrator.

....and she left knowing as much real truth about the system as when she got
there.

--
Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas