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May 11, 2006
NewsWire Complete Issue
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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In Alaska, where the risks of flying in all that empty space and bad weather are well-known, the Capstone program has been soundly successful, reducing accidents by up to 47 percent. Yet a vital part of that program, the Automatic
Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance technology, has been taken offline by the FAA at the Anchorage radar center. Controllers now provide separation for IFR flights outside radar
coverage zones "procedurally," meaning they have no actual blips on the screen to indicate position. The option is less efficient and less safe than ADS-B. So why was ADS-B, which is due for statewide
implementation later this year, and which was recently lauded by the FAA as "the future of air traffic control," taken
offline?
ADS-B transmits an aircraft's identity, position, velocity and intent to other aircraft and to ATC systems on the ground, thereby enabling pilots and controllers to have a common picture of airspace
and traffic. On May 2, the FAA said in a press briefing that ADS-B provides better coverage than radar and is safer and
more efficient. It also allows for increased capacity, "because the more accurate tracking means aircraft will be able to fly safely and more predictably with less distance between them." Numerous
studies and reports in the past have affirmed the benefits of the system. Prior safety assessments have supported its expansion. In April, the Alaska Air Carriers Association gave an award to the FAA Alaska region to recognize employees' ingenuity and inventiveness in designing the Capstone program.
"ADS-B is the backbone of the Alaska Capstone project," FAA spokesman Greg Martin told AVweb just last
October. AOPA also supports the expansion of ADS-B for GA aircraft, saying it's the "smart" choice --
simpler, more precise and less expensive than radar.
Sue Gardner, manager of the FAA Capstone program in Alaska, told AVweb on Tuesday that ADS-B was removed from radar screens as of March 24, "because it appeared controllers were operating
outside the scope of their authorization to separate the traffic." Why that became a concern at this point, when the system has been in operation since 1999, she wouldn't say. The decision was made
after a team from Washington conducted a "safety assessement" in Alaska and "took [ADS-B] off the glass," Gardner said. Geoffrey Basye, FAA spokesman in Washington, D.C., told AVweb last night
that "this is a case of growing pains." The project is continuing to expand, and has had temporary bumps in the road before, he said. "The issue remaining has to do with the provision of ATC services
in a mixed environment of ADS-B and radar returns. We want to include this as part of the program's authorization but have some short-term (two months) analysis to do. In the interim, we have to limit
temporarily the information available on the controllers' scopes." Other ADS-B services remain available, he said. "Users are getting traffic information services, flight following, etc." Also new
ground units that are due to go online in the next month will be implemented on schedule, he said, and will provide expanded ADS-B services.
Gardner also said that some parts of the system that were taken offline at first have been restored. The tower at Bethel, for example, uses ADS-B for "situational awareness," not IFR separation, so
that is back in operation. Basye said that there is not a problem with the ADS-B technology. He said there are "minor glitches" regarding the mix of ADS-B with current technology that need to be
resolved.
The Alaska Aviation Coordination Council (AACC), an industry group, expressed immediate dismay to the FAA when the system went off the scopes, calling the action "a most serious threat to Alaska
aviation safety." Even worse, the loss occurred just as the state was gearing up for its busiest -- and riskiest -- spring and summer season, when long hours of daylight and the tourist influx drive
operations. FAA Administrator Marion Blakey responded to their concerns in a letter on Monday. She defended the suspension of ADS-B from radar scopes as "appropriate," pending a review of separation
standards. Although Gardner (and the FAA Web site) said there is "no timeline" for the return of service, Blakey said she is "confident" that the issues can be resolved by July. But for Alaskan
aviators, the delay has caused problems beyond the immediate operational ones. "The credibility of the Capstone program and the FAA itself has now become an issue at a crucial time when industry is
actively engaged in planning for statewide deployment," the AACC wrote. Further, safety advocates in the state have been actively lobbying for private pilots to "self-equip" and invest in upgrading
their cockpits to take advantage of ADS-B safety enhancements. They now are worried that their efforts are undermined by the FAA's perceived lack of commitment to the program.
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As the FAA struggles with the technology of the present, there is no shortage of ideas for the future of aviation. NASA recently has been testing its latest version of the X-48B, an advanced-concept, fuel-efficient blended-wing body, in the Langley wind tunnel in Hampton, Va. The
21-foot-wide prototype is scheduled to begin flight testing later this year. "The biggest difference between this aircraft and the traditional tube-and-wing aircraft is that this does not have a
tail," said Dan Vicroy, a Langley research engineer. The wind-tunnel tests will help determine how to assure three-axis control. Two X-48B prototypes have been built, made primarily of advanced
lightweight composite materials. Powered by three turbojet engines, the 400-pound aircraft will be capable of flying up to 120 knots and 10,000 feet, Boeing says. The prototypes will be unmanned and
flown from a remote ground-control station. They are built to 8.5-percent scale, NASA said. The Air Force has expressed interest in the design's potential as a multi-role, long-range high-capacity
military aircraft that could be used for tanking, weapons carriage and command-and-control missions. The technology could be ready in 10 to 15 years. Boeing is also investigating many other ideas, The Seattle Times reported on Monday. Advanced-concept researchers are envisioning
jets of the future that will be quieter, more fuel-efficient, faster and easier to fly. To achieve those ends, strategies include forward-swept wings, canard configurations and unducted fans. Of
course, good ideas are only half the battle. Even some tested technologies stall when faced with money problems. A runway-light experiment in Dallas, for example, has proven successful but is not
being implemented elsewhere due to a lack of funding, consumeraffairs.com reported last week.
The Solar Impulse project, which aims to build a solar-powered aircraft that can fly around the world, has begun to attract attention from
the mainstream press, as a perceived "race" with another solar-powered craft heats up (pun
intended). The Solar Impulse group, based in Switzerland and headed by Bertrand Piccard, plans to build a single-seat, solar-powered long-distance aircraft. The design phase is already well underway
and first flights are expected as soon as 2008. The Planet Solar project, also based in Switzerland, now has expressed the
goal to be the first to get round the planet in a solar-powered craft -- although it would go by water instead of by air. The strange-looking three-hulled 90-foot-long ship would be covered in
photovoltaic cells that would drive it across the waves at about 10 knots. So far, the plan is in the computer-modeling phase. The Solar Impulse Web site says the project has acquired over 80 percent
of the financing needed to start construction.
Meanwhile, the Japanese effort to design a next-generation supersonic transport is struggling with setbacks and looking for international partners, The Associated Press reported on Monday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will enter
talks next month with NASA to discuss cooperative efforts. Japan is working to develop a scramjet engine that would be 99 percent quieter than the Concorde, and Boeing would build the airframe, The
Associated Press said, though those reports were deemed "premature" by JAXA. Japan does aim to have an experimental hypersonic transport flying by 2025. That aircraft would fly at Mach 5 and cross the
Pacific within two hours, according to JAXA's online vision statement. Using liquid hydrogen as fuel, it would be efficient and
environmentally friendly, JAXA says. The technology would also be useful for the first stage of space-transportation systems.
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The FAA has backed off (in record time, it appears) on a proposal to charge a Michigan fly-in $3,200 for a temporary tower. As AVweb reported last Monday morning, organizers of the West Michigan Fly-In, at Alleghan Airport,
near Grand Rapids, were scraping together donations to cover the charge. However, hours after the story appeared, and after some strategically placed phone calls from an EAA official, the agency
withdrew the proposal and agreed to provide ATC services for free. "We're very relieved," said Andy Millin, an organizer whose job it is to arrange for the tower. Millin said the organizing committee
was prepared to pay the fee from community sponsorships (Millin's business pledged $500) even though they were convinced it was wrong. "This turned out to be a whole lot more about pilots, the FAA,
and user fees than it was about a regional airport holding a fly-in and wanting a temporary control tower," Millen told EAA's online news service. At AVweb's suggestion, Millen contacted EAA,
and Government Relations Director Randy Hansen wasted no time. He talked with the senior managers who came up with the proposal and the issue was resolved quickly. "The FAA fully realizes that the
fly-in is a non-profit event designed to promote the airport and its activities to the local community, and that they don't charge community members a fee to enter the airport grounds for the fly-in,"
Hansen said. While fly-in officials got the reaction they were looking for from the FAA, they were bewildered by some of the responses they received from pilots and organizers of other aviation
events. While many offered support and suggestions on how to beat the charge, others were angry that the committee was considering paying the charge, thus potentially opening the door to similar fees
being levied on other events. "They were mad because we wouldn't stand up to the FAA," said Jason Gilbert, one of the fly-in organizers. It wasn't the reaction I was expecting."
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey testified before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation last week,
to justify her FAA fiscal year 2007 budget. Blakey reiterated her request for a change in FAA funding practices, saying the agency needs "a stable and predictable funding system that provides
appropriate incentives to users and to the FAA to operate more efficiently." The future presents many challenges, she said, requiring an upgraded airspace system that can handle the giant Airbus A380,
fleets of microjets and everything in between. Blakey asked overall for a lower budget than last year, but would add $8 million for 101 new aviation safety inspectors and 32 new staffers for the Air
Traffic Safety Oversight office. She told the Senate panel that the FAA has not yet decided on an official position regarding user fees, according to Helicopter Association International.
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The FAA has issued a Notice Of Proposed Rule Making to address concerns about brake fires in some Cirrus SR20 and SR22 aircraft. Four brake fires and two reports of airplanes losing directional
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The Adam A700 jet is on track to be certified by the FAA by the end of this year, Adam Aircraft President Joe Walker told AVweb on
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company and the FAA. Close to 300 orders have been received, he said, most of them from fleet operators. The jet recently flew to 41,000 feet and achieved a true airspeed of 340 knots, reaching its target. Two more test aircraft will be flying soon, Walker said. For more about the A700 progress
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As China's commercial aviation sector continues to grow at an ever-accelerating pace, the future of private general aviation is less clear. This week, a senior official told China Daily that the commercial fleet would double by 2010, growing to 1,580 aircraft, and reach 4,000 by
2020. Plus, 42 airports will be built in the next four years, and another 30 in the 10 years after that. Yet also this week, China Daily reported that two people were killed and a third critically hurt when their airplane crashed just 10 minutes after takeoff on an "illegal" flight. Since all airspace is
controlled and supervised by military authorities, private flying requires a complicated application procedure. "Unremitting efforts lobbying for the opening of airspace have been made for years, but
there is still a long way to go," Hu Dalin, spokesman for the Aero Sports Federation of China, told China Daily on Monday.
If there are unidentified objects flitting around in the airspace, lots of pilots would certainly like to know about it -- and so would the military. In the United Kingdom, a secret government report
from six years ago was recently released to a professor who requested it under a freedom-of-information law. The report concludes that UFOs are mainly non-threatening aircraft or unusual weather
phenomena. High-altitude plasma clouds, which glow and flit about, were one likely cause of many otherwise unexplained sightings. The report apparently has done little to convince believers. Even
neutral skeptics have said the report is flawed. No scientists were directly consulted, and the author, who was
not identified, relied on secondhand information with no follow-up, according to David Clarke, the journalism professor who unearthed the report. And despite a Daily Mail story that said the report's findings are conclusive, UFO
believers were quick to scoff. Commenters at the newspaper's Web site labeled the conclusions "disinformation" and "propaganda," and cited their own experiences with objects that don't fit plasma
clouds' appearance or behavior. And some just want to believe: "So what you're telling me is that humans are the most intelligent life form on the earth?" wrote one commenter. "God help us all then."
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A helicopter pilot flying for a Florida sheriff's department was temporarily blinded when a green laser was aimed
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Anousheh Ansari (of Ansari X-Prize) has been accepted by Russia's Space Agency as the first female space tourist. She will fly to the International Space Station in spring 2007.
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*** PREVIOUS RESULTS ***
Last week,
AVweb asked how rising fuel costs are affecting your flying.
The question came to us from reader Richard Herbst (of Control Vision Corp),
and it sparked a few
letters of
comment. (Whenever we mention the rising cost of avgas
here in the U.S., we always here from pilots in the U.K. — among
other spots — whose fuel prices make us blanch.)
Based on our informal survey, it seems AVweb readers aren't pushing
any panic buttons yet. About half of those who responded to
our question (55% of you, to be exact) say that rising fuel costs
have had no particular effect on your flying or that you're merely
taking a more active interest in price-shopping for fuel as part of
your preflight planning.
A good 23% of you, though, said you're already flying considerably
less, and 9% of you are trying (when possible) to avoid high-profile
FBOs in the hunt for cheaper fuel.
4% of you are considering a more fuel-efficient bird to replace your
current ride.
And a pretty significant 9% of you told us that, if prices keep
rising, you'll be forced to give up flying altogether.
*** THIS WEEK'S QUESTION ***
Another topic that always generates reader mail: UFOs.
Do you buy the "secret" report out of the U.K. — that UFOs are
mainly non-threatening aircraft or unusual weather phenomena?
(Read
more here.)
Click here to answer
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Past POTW Winners Welcome back to "Picture of the Week," a
regular feature wherein we select the best and brightest
reader-submitted photos and share them with all of you. This
week's winning photo is from James Wreyford of Marble Falls, Texas, who
kicks things off with a few well-placed explosions. Grab your
popcorn and let's check out the rest of this week's runners-up!
(Remember: When you
submit
your photos here, you're automatically considered in our weekly "POTW"
contest — and the top winner each week receives an official AVweb
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"OV-2 Near Miss"
"Move! Move!" should be the caption on this photo from
James Wreyford of Marble Falls,
Texas. (We confess: One of us actually ducked for cover when
we saw this photo.) Naturally, this is an air show photo — from
last month's CAF air show at Burnet Municipal Airport in Burnet, Texas. |
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AVweb continues to receive a large number of excellent images for
our POTW contest. Here are some of the runners-up. Due to privacy issues,
AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of
readers who submit photos. |
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"I Too Was Once Indestructible"
Continuing with this week's unofficial Mission: Impossible theme,
William F. Tinsley of Santa Paula,
California has a harrowing adventure story:
"Growing up on a small airport makes for some interesting times.
After taking my girlfriend to her senior prom, I still had the tux.
Well, what do you do with a tux before you return it? You do a
little wing-walking, of course."
And to think: Our "POTW" Editor was too squeamish to go
swimming in his tux. Pfah. |
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"Flying Octopus"
We're quite fond of the little historical gems that show up in our
submission box from time to time. And while we can't date this
photo exactly, we can tell you what submitter
James Rix (of Wichita, Kansas) told us:
"My grandfather worked with DeBothezat on the first helicopter to fly.
It flew in 1922 for one minute and 42 seconds at McCook airfield.
We found this autographed picture after my grandfather's death, along
with other early airplane memorabilia."
Thanks for scanning and sharing the photo, James. (We love this
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"How Many Can You Identify?"
Dirk Tanis of Rock Hill, South
Carolina brought this photo home from the aviation museum at Le Bourget
in Paris, France. Engraved on the prop are the signatures of many
French WWI pilots. |
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"Waiting for VMC"
Rain was a common element in many of this week's photo submissions,
including this one from Ioan Suciu of
Bucharest (Romania). We found Ioan's photo simple and to the point
— nothing says "waiting" like a wet windshield and a lonely headset. |
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"Short Water-Landing"
We'll see you off this week with a photo from
Joe Horenkamp of Novi, Michigan.
For those who don't immediately recognize it, that's the Collings
Foundation B-17 Nine-O-Nine under the U.S. flag — sporting a nice
color touch-up from Joe. (We know it's a digitally-altered photo —
but ain't it purty?)
Joe wants us to remind everyone to support the Yankee Air Museum's
hangar fire recovery program — so we will. You can find out more
by visiting the
"Donations and Needs" page at
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To enter next week's contest,
click here.
A Reminder About Copyrights: Please take a moment to consider the
source of your image before submitting to our "Picture of the Week" contest.
If you did not take the photo yourself, ask yourself if you are indeed
authorized to release publication rights to AVweb. If you're uncertain,
consult the
POTW
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