Word: faa
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...troubles have been caused mainly by the carriers' fast growth. Few of today's 240 scheduled small lines existed as recently as 1964, and regulation lags behind. As FAA rules now stand, all an operator needs before going into the business is a commercial pilot's license, which can be earned with less than 200 hours of training. Pilots for the major airlines need a minimum 1,200 hours, plus instrument-flying proficiency...
...better third-level carriers, including some of the scheduled services that the FAA calls "commuter air carriers," demand airline-style experience of their pilots-but most do not. At the bottom are the unscheduled "air taxis," many of which are Mom and Pop outfits that hire out for various chores and use smaller and less well-equipped planes than the commuters...
Even with the quotas, the FAA concedes that rush-hour delays of up to one hour will have to be considered "reasonable." John Shaffer, a former vice president of TRW, Inc., who is the new FAA administrator, says that the quotas are merely a "Band-Aid approach" that does not solve the real problems. Inadequate airports and traffic-control systems have been overwhelmed by the 101% increase in air traffic within the past decade. A program to automate air-traffic control more fully is two years behind schedule...
...skepticism, however, involves only the idea of floating; otherwise, there is little question that many jetports of the future will be water-based. This fall the FAA expects to unwrap a $35,000 study of existing proposals for offshore air port construction, which will include airports built on fill, on piles and behind dikes. Meanwhile, a number of cities in the U.S. and abroad have their own study projects under...
Better safety devices are being tested. One is a radio transmitter and a device that sets off an alarm when two planes are on collision course. It instructs one pilot to fly up, the other down. To relieve overburdened controllers, the FAA has begun to install computerized radar control systems at a few airports; these automatically print out aircraft identification, altitude and speed...