IP: Re: Iridium wants to provide real time airline "Black Box"services

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:12:25 -0500
> From: Paul Hubbard <phubbard () fnal gov>
>
> > As a pilot also, is this person right.
>
> [rm]
>
> Yes, he is. See http://www.avweb.com for details of the regulations and
> their impact on general aviation. (not affiliated, it's just one of my
> main sources for aviation news)
>
> I once spent a week working in an environment where I was constantly on
> camera (research reactor out at Sandia Labs) and it was _extremely_
> unpleasant and diconcerting. By the end of the week, I was immensely
> glad to be out of there. I can't imagine flying under such monitoring.
>
> The restrictions on Class B airspace (large metro areas, basically) are
> quite burdensome to the GA industry, who is not getting the same federal
> bailout as the airlines.
>
> There have also been some egregious abuses of the situation by people
> such as mayor Daley of Chicago, who used 9/11 as an excuse to close
> Meigs airfield, but that's probably another discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> --
> Paul Hubbard  phubbard () fnal gov



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