Biden did ZERO to Improve Air Safety

[bornaneer]

According to the Government Accountability Office

A report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in March shows that the Trump administration inherited an outdated FAA system from the Biden administration with "severe shortcomings" that resulted in dangerous travel conditions across the country.

After Trump’s return to the White House, the GAO advised the administration that it had made nine recommendations to the FAA under the Biden administration that remain open, and that "urgent attention" is needed to remedy the safety issues left by Biden.

GAO said that under the Biden administration the FAA "did not prioritize or establish near-term plans to modernize unsustainable and critical systems."

 

[bornaneer]

President Trump touted his administration's efforts to rebuild and modernize U.S. air traffic control, as the Department of Transportation rolled out its three-year plan to build a brand-new, "state-of-the-art" system to address critical safety needs, while blasting former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for having "no clue."

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday unveiled the proposal, which would replace the current, antiquated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system and "enhance safety in the sky, reduce delays and unlock the future of air travel."

The plan would ensure facilities are equipped with better technologies to reduce outages, improve efficiency and reinforce safety.

"We're going to be buying a brand-new, state of the art system that will cover the entire world," Trump said earlier Thursday.

The plan consists of four infrastructure components: communications, surveillance, automation and facilities, according to the Transportation Department.

Officials plan, by 2028, to replace current telecommunications systems with new fiber, wireless and satellite technologies at more than 4,600 sites, 25,000 new radios and 475 new voice switches. By 2027, 618 radars will also be replaced.

The plan also would address runway safety by increasing the number of airports with Surface Awareness Initiative to 200. Officials expect this to be complete by 2027.
The Transportation Department also proposed building six new air traffic control centers for the first time since the 1960s. It also proposes replacing 15 towers and 15 co-located TRACONs, or Terminal Radar Approach Controls, which are facilities that manage air traffic in the airspace surrounding busy airports.

Officials also proposed the installation of new modern hardware and software for all air traffic facilities, which would create a common platform system throughout all towers, TRACONs and centers.

The proposal is based on a three-year framework to reinvest in the National Airspace System, and called for an "emergency supplemental funding increase.

"Modernization of the NAS can no longer take 10+ years to complete; it must be done now," the proposal states. "We need an immediate infusion of funding to address critical infrastructure needs."

Duffy said the project would take three to four years.

"I need help, I can't do it by myself. And it's going to take the help of the Congress to make that happen," Duffy said. "We need all of the money up front."

 

[bornaneer]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Biden administration failed to prioritize safety.

“They were focused on changing the name from ‘cockpit’ to ‘flight deck’ or ‘notice to airmen,’ they wanted to change it to ‘notice to air mission,’” Duffy stated.

 

[moe]

Cool story. But all the problems are happening on Trump's watch especially after immediately cutting FAA jobs. We need action not lame excuses. It's not safe to fly.

Some of the 400 jobs that were cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a union says

 

[roadtrasheer]

Cool story. But all the problems are happening on Trump's watch especially after immediately cutting FAA jobs. We need action not lame excuses. It's not safe to fly.

Some of the 400 jobs that were cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a union says

My union says that the job steward who sleeps all day is needed......oh yeah he is the business manager son in law ....

 

[bornaneer]

Cool story. But all the problems are happening on Trump's watch especially after immediately cutting FAA jobs. We need action not lame excuses. It's not safe to fly.

Some of the 400 jobs that were cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a union says

Trump is starting the process to get the things that Biden did not do even after he was warned of the problems. Trump will get it done...just like he is getting FAIR tariffs for the people of the U.S.A..

Air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors were not included in the layoffs.
No one at the FAA in a "critical safety" position has been fired.
This rash of crashes and safety incidents is ALL on Biden and his idiots.

 

[roadtrasheer]

Trump is starting the process to get the things that Biden did not do even after he was warned of the problems. Trump will get it done...just like he is getting FAIR tariffs for the people of the U.S.A..

Air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors were not included in the layoffs.
No one at the FAA in a "critical safety" position has been fired.
This rash of crashes and safety incidents is ALL on Biden and his idiots.

Is it all on biden or is it on our do nothing congress and Senate over the past 30 years not have a proactive maintenance and upgrade protocol in place? Our representatives only concern themselves with agendas for elections. Not defending the mushbrain nor the socialists he surrounded himself with. Our socialists policies takes away from our ability to provide a safe means of commerce.

 

[moe]

just like he is putting extra taxes in the form of tariffs on the people of the U.S.A..

FIFY

 

[moe]

Biden better get this fixed.

Air traffic controllers for Newark airport briefly lose radar access again

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar at the facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark airport went black for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. Friday. That’s similar to what happened on April 28.

That first radar outage led to hundreds of flights being canceled or delayed at the Newark airport in the past two weeks after the FAA slowed down traffic at the airport to ensure safety. Five controllers also went on trauma leave after that outage, worsening the existing shortage. It’s not clear if any additional controllers will go on leave now.