By AL BAKER Published: September 2, 2009 The Federal Aviation Administration said
prada sneakerson Wednesday that it would issue new rules for governing how airplanes, helicopters and other touring and official aircraft operate in the congested air corridor above the Hudson River. Administration officials said the agency would also develop new training programs for pilots, air traffic controllers and the sightseeing helicopter operators that use the corridor. And, for the largest swath of airspace, the agency said it would set limits for how fast the aircraft could fly and would require that every pilot in that area be tuned to the same radio channel — protocols that are now voluntary. “These steps will significantly enhance safety in this busy area and create crystal-clear rules for all of the pilots who operate there,” the agency’s administrator, J. Randolph Babbitt, said in a statement outlining the proposed changes. The steps were developed by a special panel
cheap ed hardyconvened by the aviation administration to make recommendations after a mid-air collision on Aug. 8 in which a single-engine plane collided with a touring helicopter over the Hudson River. The accident killed nine people, including a group of tourists from Italy. The agency’s move is a prompt and rare set of specific refinements to an unregulated and congested swatch of airspace that one elected official has refereed to as the Wild West. The move comes a week after the National Transportation Safety Board — an advisory body that has the investigative lead in the crash but lacks the authority to order changes — issued its own set of recommendations, which are, by some measures, fundamentally different from the aviation administration’s proposals. A spokeswoman for the board said it would look more carefully at the proposed changes in the days ahead. Though the F.A.A. proposal would have to pass through a required rulemaking process in Washington, including being subject to public comment, the agency will expedite the process and expects to have all of the changes fully in place by Nov. 19, said Laura J. Brown, an F.A.A. spokeswoman. Even as the proposed changes were made public, United
buy ed hardyStates Representative Jerrold Nadler, who represents the West Side of Manhattan, released a statement calling them “fundamentally inadequate.” Senator Charles E. Schumer said he was not happy with the proposed changes either. “The F.A.A. took a first step but more has to be done,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement, citing the fact that under the proposal, controllers would not monitor planes in airspace below 1,000 feet altitude. “We urge the F.A.A. to go back to the drawing board and put in the necessary additions to keep the corridor safe." An aide to Mr. Nadler said that the congressman and other lawmakers from New York and New Jersey had advanced a raft of ideas that the aviation administration ignored in its proposals issued on Wednesday. Primarily, Mr. Nadler was pushing to require all planes flying in the corridor to have a cockpit device that warns when another aircraft is too close, said the aide, Robert M. Gottheim. “It is not something that you have to actively go on a radio for, but technology allows the system to operate automatically,” said Mr. Gottheim. “It would greatly diminish human error.” The assortment of proposed changes and requirements put
ugg boots forth by the F.A.A. delve into the finer points of flying aircraft through some of the most complicated airspace in the nation. At the core, the changes would create space for pilots who want to easily pass through the area while keeping away from the zigzagging traffic of planes or helicopters whose pilots are aiming to linger in the area to sightsee. Under the new configuration, a pilot could fly in a specially designed corridor above the other general aviation traffic, yet stay within airspace that is under the direction of air traffic controllers, a slight variation from current practice. A second kind of altitudinal corridor would be for planes to fly above other traffic but use, as a main means of avoiding collision, a technique called “see and avoid,” which requires pilots to basically look out their windows to detect other aircraft. A third airspace would be created for all aircraft
ugg roxy operating under 1,000 feet altitude. In the two lower-altitude corridors, the rules that would become mandatory include: Requiring pilots to tune their radio to a frequency of 123.05, known as the common traffic advisory frequency, and to announce their description, location, direction and altitude when entering the area; requiring southbound planes and choppers to hug the New Jersey coastline and northbound ones to hew closely to the West Side of Manhattan; setting speeds at 140 knots or less, for all aircraft; requiring pilots to turn on anti-collision devices, navigation equipment and landing lights. For any pilots of fixed-wing airplanes leaving Teterboro Airport, in New Jersey, they would be required to enter the uncontrolled air corridor via a special route over the George Washington Bridge. If those pilots desired to fly into controlled air space, the controllers at Teterboro would have to gain approval from their counterparts at Newark Liberty International Airport before takeoff. As for the training programs the F.A.A. said it intends
ugg sunburst tall to develop for pilots, air traffic controllers and the operators of touring operations, Ms. Brown said they would be added to pilots’ routine training regimens, though not be made mandatory for all pilots. “We are requiring that if you operate in that airspace, you know the rules,” said Ms. Brown, who pointed out that, “there will be multiple ways that pilots can learn the rules.” the article is from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/nyregion/03faa.html?hp
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