Word: faa
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...freight remains scarcely affected by the new restrictions, since cargo flights normally operate in the relatively quiet hours of the night. Essential military flights retain top priority. General aviation, which includes private traffic ranging from two-seaters to large corporate jets, has been cut back the most. The FAA is allowing its control centers to accept only about 35% of the previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing...
Just how good are the substitute controllers and how are they holding up? The supervisors who have returned to their scopes, insists Irving Moss, the FAA's New York spokesman, are "the college professors of the air controllers. They know controlling forward and backward. They have been running more traffic than we thought possible and they are bringing the planes in under safer conditions than ever." Moss insists that the supervisors enjoy being relieved of paperwork and are now "on a real high" because they "came in when they were needed and kept the planes flying...
Still, the crisis-generated "highs" of the substitute controllers will surely start to fade. The FAA's Moss contends that controllers "perform best under stress -they thrive on it." He cites studies showing that collisions in the air occur mainly when traffic is relatively light and when "the stress is off air controllers, and they are not paying attention." Some of the working controllers, who were still putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself...
...FAA is well aware of the need to watch its controllers for any sign of weariness and to keep air traffic limited to their ability to handle it. Reports Temple Johnson Jr., tower chief at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, who checks each controller twice a day: "I look them in the eye and ask, 'How are you doing? Tell me straight.' " As of last week Johnson was pleased at the answers he was getting. So far, they were doing well. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Dean Brelis/New York, with other bureaus
Once a federal worker receives a dismissal notice, he normally has 30 days to appeal it to his employing agency. With the consent of the Office of Personnel Management, the FAA reduced the response time to seven days. If a controller can show that he was fired unfairly (proving, for example, that he was harassed by fellow strikers), he will be taken back aboard. If the FAA rules against him, however, he then has 20 days to file an appeal before the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal arbitration agency. If the board affirms the firing, a controller may still...