Blakey explains

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]

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]

tscottme wrote:
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.


Filling the FAA with incompetent minorities and women with
no clue(Including dip **** Blakey) is the reason the FAA is
so ****ed up.

Not Politically Correct

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.

tscottme wrote:

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.


Lack of runways, lack of proper runway configuration due to politics and
revamping (again and again) of lighted-airway-days airports.

If every major airport was like Denver, we would have a lot less
problems. Obviously, that is an unobtainable ideal, but we could do a
whole lot better than we are doing.

"Sam Spade" wrote in message
...

Lack of runways, lack of proper runway configuration due to politics and
revamping (again and again) of lighted-airway-days airports.

If every major airport was like Denver, we would have a lot less problems.
Obviously, that is an unobtainable ideal, but we could do a whole lot
better than we are doing.


And all of that, and more, was ascertained at US government expense almost
six decades ago.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Lack of runways, lack of proper runway configuration due to politics and
revamping (again and again) of lighted-airway-days airports.

If every major airport was like Denver, we would have a lot less problems.
Obviously, that is an unobtainable ideal, but we could do a whole lot
better than we are doing.


And all of that, and more, was ascertained at US government expense almost
six decades ago.

So why all this Next Gen BS as a supposed end to flight delays? ADS-B
Out will cost GA owners beaucoup and not benefit them and in my
opinion will have little benefit to commercial ops.

Ron Lee