Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'air traffic'
The FAA: Culture of Corruption
FAA inspectors say concerns ignored The meat of the article Both FAA whistleblowers -- Charalambe Boutris and Peters -- said the agency views the airlines as its 'customers' instead of companies to be regulated. They said the FAA's chief...
Links and Minifeatures 10 11 Thursday
Remember the last Links and Minifeatures, where I hypthesized that there was was least an 80% probability that the professor who found a noose on her office door was somehow a put-up job? Columbia is refusing to turn over the...
Links and Minifeatures 08 08 Wednesday
Here's something useful, with many properties locally worth less than their purchase price. If you're one of those who paid more than the property is now worth, you can have your property re-assessed downwards in value - if you file...
Links and Minifeatures 07 12 Thursday
Popular Advice You Shouldn't Take Four pieces of advice. I mostly agree with the writer's take on Amassing Cash and Buying Big. The time when most people take to amass an emergency fund is precisely the time of their lives...
Flight Delays
Push grows for flier 'bill of rights' "You gotta realize the frustration -- you can look out the window and you can see, there's the gate, and if you let us off the plane, we can walk there," said Farrell,...
Links and Minifeatures 01 26 Friday
Carnival of Investing ********** U.S. troops may protect selves from Iranians I wasn't aware that there was any doubt. If there was, shame on the entire chain of command, but particularly Mr. Bush. He spoke after The Washington Post reported...
Links and Minifeatures 01 23 Tuesday
RINO Sightings Eric did a wonderful job via Salvador Dali (Not Quite Safe For Work, if your boss doesn't understand that it's Art) Recommended: Digger's Realm (illegal immigrant sex offenses, but I seem to recall that includes some truly insignificant...
The Situation in the Air Traffic Profession
Air Traffic Controllers: New FAA Contract Will Lead to Longer Hours, Fatigue WASHINGTON -- Air traffic controllers said Friday they will be forced to work even when they are tired under a contract the Federal Aviation Administration plans to impose...
Airing Dirty Laundry: the ComAir Crash
In the hope that maybe a little fresh air will clean it out "Feds Say Air Controller Slept 2 Hours" LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — In the day leading up to the crash of Comair Flight 5191, a federal investigator says...
Links and Minifeatures 07 13 Thursday (late)
Citgo to stop selling gas to U.S. stations Might make a significant price difference in the midwest, where it mostly applies. ********** Killer kangaroo, demon duck of doom roamed Outback Prehistoric weird animals in Australia! ********** Hurray! San Diego bans...
Links and Minifeatures 01 18 Wednesday
Carnival of The Vanities Carnival of The Clueless. ********** Want to become wealthier? Don't want to be poor? Get married. Stay married. About as surprising as gravity, but you'd be surprised how many people can't seem to understand it. I'm...
Links and Minifeatures 11 29 Tuesday
This is, alas, par for the course: FAA calls for mediator in talks with air traffic controllers. FAA management is a sick, corrupt culture, and they have monopoly power over controllers. There are no other significant jobs in Air Traffic....
Near Miss at Las Vegas
Air Controller Loses Job After Near-Miss. Except that he didn't. He was decertified on the position, perhaps from all positions of operation. This is what is known as taking precautions pending an investigation. Unless something really out of the ordinary...
Links and Minifeatures 09 26 Monday
China is trying to bail a levee breach with a sieve, but don't tell them that. China Imposes New Rules on News Web Sites. It's nice to see a situation where entropy works for civilization and against its enemies. Of...
Links and Minifeatures 09 22 Thursday
I suspect that this guide to remaining anonymous online is going to be featured by a lot of people today. Given what it is intended to accomplish, the enabling of reporting from within regimes that repress free reporting, I support...
3400 Airspace Violations since 9/11
This number seems consistent with personal experience. I disagree that one agency should be responsible, however - just what we need, a new federal agency. What are they going to do, hire a whole agency full of people to watch,...
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