US: NATCA president: FAA falling behind on ATC technology
FAA is stuck in “a vicious cycle” of deploying new air traffic control technology so slowly that it becomes outdated by the time the technology is actually in use, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) president Paul Rinaldi said Aug 24. “The status quo, as we sit [here] today, is completely unacceptable,” Rinaldi, head of the union representing 14,000 US air traffic controllers, said. An “archaic, bureaucratic-laden procurement process” and federal budget constraints mean the FAA is “stuck in the early 2000s” in terms of ATC technology, he said. Despite the US govt spending hundreds of millions of dollars deploying the En Route Automation Modernisation computer system at the FAA’s 20 enroute ATC centres across the US, “we still have to do 2.4m manual handoffs a year with Canada,” Rinaldi said. <br/>
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US: NATCA president: FAA falling behind on ATC technology
FAA is stuck in “a vicious cycle” of deploying new air traffic control technology so slowly that it becomes outdated by the time the technology is actually in use, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) president Paul Rinaldi said Aug 24. “The status quo, as we sit [here] today, is completely unacceptable,” Rinaldi, head of the union representing 14,000 US air traffic controllers, said. An “archaic, bureaucratic-laden procurement process” and federal budget constraints mean the FAA is “stuck in the early 2000s” in terms of ATC technology, he said. Despite the US govt spending hundreds of millions of dollars deploying the En Route Automation Modernisation computer system at the FAA’s 20 enroute ATC centres across the US, “we still have to do 2.4m manual handoffs a year with Canada,” Rinaldi said. <br/>
