by General Aviation News Staff | Apr 30, 2022 | #Aircraft, 20220512, air traffic control, ATC, Aviation News, Briefings, faa, flying, General Aviation, News, Pilots
The air traffic system includes hundreds of towers at airports and terminal approach control facilities. It also includes 22 centers handling aircraft at high altitudes. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Jan 27, 2022 | #Aircraft, Airports, ASRS Reports, ATC, Aviation News, Aviation Safety Reporting System, flying, General Aviation, Pilots
Our aircraft was not able to turn the lights on after multiple attempts. Another C172 entered the pattern shortly after initiating the go-around. That aircraft was able to get the lights to come on. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Jan 25, 2022 | #Aircraft, ASRS Reports, ATC, Aviation News, Aviation Safety Reporting System, flight planning, flying, General Aviation, Pilots
There are two VFR arrival points being used at Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) in Oklahoma called “Turnpike Split” and “Cross Creek Warehouse.” Neither of these arrival points are charted and neither are readily located by any normal level of flight...
by Ben Sclair | Dec 15, 2021 | 20211223, ATC, Aviation News, General Aviation, Opinion, Touch & Go
The idea of replacing more than 100 aging traditional control towers with more than 100 new traditional control towers is frustrating to me. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | 20211209, air traffic control, ATC, Aviation News, faa, flying, General Aviation, News, Pilots
The FAA has authorized continued operations at the remote ATC tower at Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia, the first in the agency’s remote tower program. Read...
by General Aviation News Staff | Oct 30, 2021 | 20211118, Airports, ATC, Aviation News, Briefings, faa, flying, General Aviation, News
The FAA has more than 100 aging control towers at regional and municipal airports across the United States that will eventually need to be replaced. Read...
