ADS-B....deadline. Maybe not.

[Mooneymite]

AIN Alerts, Feb 6, 2014:

 

FAA Likely To Miss Deadlines on NextGen, UAS and PBN

Even though the FAA is providing funding for several airlines to purchase ADS-B equipment, the agency likely will not be able to mandate ADS-B intechnology by 2020, as it is required to do by the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Transportation Department inspector general Calvin Scovel III told Congress yesterday. That legislation provided the FAA with a stable four-year authorization that included policy direction and guidance for the agency to operate the National Airspace System safely and better manage its Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and other modernization efforts, including integrating new technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). It also focuses on the FAA’s progress and challenges in effectively using two safety workforces–controllers and inspectors. The DOT IG said the FAA does not have an effective model for determining the number of inspectors it needs and where to place them. Further, the agency has not developed metrics to determine whether its new duty scheduling policies will reduce controller fatigue. Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office’s Gerald Dillingham testified that the FAA must continue to deliver performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures and begin to demonstrate a return on operators’ investments.

[pinerunner]

Sigh,

 

Better keep on looking out the window. 

[N201MKTurbo]

It sounds like the last place I worked. There are people who go to meetings and there are the people who do the work. The two groups rarely talk. I've been members of both. I prefer to be the latter. At least you know you have accomplished something instead of just taking credit for other peoples work...

[Mooneymite]

It sounds like the last place I worked. There are people who go to meetings and there are the people who do the work. The two groups rarely talk. I've been members of both. I prefer to be the latter. At least you know you have accomplished something instead of just taking credit for other peoples work...

You just haven't moved up to your level of incompetence yet.

When you do, you'll like the meetings a lot more. :-)

[wiguy]

2020 deadline or not, I'm not all worried about it. By the looks of it I'd just have to adjust my flying very little. I seldom go above 10k and avoid class 'B' airspace anyway. It's still a ways off too.