FAA Administrator Blakey Reduces Safety In The Name Of Procedural Conformance

Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:54:36 -0600, Newps wrote
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Something got discovered and they are fixing it.


Thanks for the information.

One would think the problem would have been discovered long before
seven years had past.


You're assuming nothing has changed in that seven years. More likely
the controllers got some new piece of equipment and that and ADS-B
aren't playing well together. Or possibly the airspace was recently
carved up differently. So the geeks are hard at work coming up with a fix.

"Newps" wrote in message . ..


Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:54:36 -0600, Newps wrote
in ::


Something got discovered and they are fixing it.


Thanks for the information.

One would think the problem would have been discovered long before
seven years had past.


You're assuming nothing has changed in that seven years. More likely the controllers got some new piece of equipment
and that and ADS-B aren't playing well together. Or possibly the airspace was recently carved up differently. So the
geeks are hard at work coming up with a fix.

The way I read it was some folks from DC watched over the shoulders of the Alaskan controllers and said you can't
maintain correct separation using the procedures they had developed over 7 years of ever safer operations, so basically
they are back to the "report passing a fix and then the next guy is cleared to the fix" procedure from the 60's...

..Blueskies. wrote:




The way I read it was some folks from DC watched over the shoulders of the Alaskan controllers and said you can't
maintain correct separation using the procedures they had developed over 7 years of ever safer operations, so basically
they are back to the "report passing a fix and then the next guy is cleared to the fix" procedure from the 60's...

I can believe that. The people in the top management positions today
couldn't identify a radar scope if they were seated in front of one.
None of these people came from the ranks of controllers. They are
management types from other areas of aviation and sometimes non
aviation. They are clueless. One only has to look at the position and
hold debacle of this winter and early spring as an example.