FAA provides new support and supervision of air traffic monitors at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA), which is the latest batch to improve safety in the wake of the bloodiest heels Trade Air accident In decades in the United States
The organizer said on Wednesday that it plans to study the employment levels in the airport observation tower, which it represented like many across the country Employees. It plans to increase the number of operating supervisors from six to eight and review the accredited professional observer numbers (CPC). From early February, there were 25 CPCs working in the tower in KDCA, or about 89 percent of the agency’s 28 goal.
The agency last month Make an effort To “Supercharge”, hiring thousands of candidates to assess air traffic skills (ATSA) through new incentives.
The Federal Aviation Administration will also review the airport’s arrival rate per hour, which he said “is unpaveded within the last 30 minutes of each hour.” After the January collision between the Black Hawk helicopter in the US Army and the CRJ-700-which killed 67 people-the rate of access was reduced to 26 aircraft per hour. He said that the airport has now returned to 30 expatriates per hour.
For individual control units, FAA will conduct routine health checks and send the critical CESM management team to visit KDCA in early this month. per The National Air traffic monitors Association “provides secret and non -judicial support, and a counterpart to analogy in the wake of the stressful events to enhance recovery after a difficult experience.”
The Federal Aviation Administration said last week that it was Investigation of fighting Between two airport control tower control units after a hot argument.
A source who did not reveal his name said to Daily Mail.
The measures announced on Wednesday followed comprehensive safety changes at Reagan Airport, including except Among all the operations of non -essential helicopters earlier this month. The Federal Aviation Administration has permanently closed the helicopter section where the collision occurred and will It requires Any plane wandering through the KDCA Class B to operation of automatic monitoring (ADS-B).
FAA made changes after the National Transport Safety Council issued Primary report In the accident and urged “immediate work”. Investigators have revealed a date of the limited separation between aircraft and helicopters in KDCA, including 85 calls close to a three -year period as the planes crossed tracks with less than 200 feet of the vertical separation.
In early March, the organizer I launched an experiment From Spacex Starlink in a handful of airports in an attempt to improve air traffic connections. It also publishes artificial intelligence to determine “hot points” where mixed traffic with fixed wings and helicopters may be the creation of close calls. Roshilo said last week that it would be “premature” to implement safety measures at other airports until more analysis is made.
It is expected soon that the Ministry of Transport (DOT) will announce Described As the best technology, best technology, best technology, best technology, envy of the world air traffic control system “last week.
Meanwhile, Federal employees assigned to maintain the safe aviation system face a period of uncertainty. In February, hundreds of FAA staff were demobilized due to the White House directives – a step condemned by groups such Natca and Professional aviation safety specialistsWhich represented more than 100 of these workers.
Tuesday, point Send thousands of employees– With the exception of “critical safety” situations such as air traffic monitors – a new purchase offer that resembles a comprehensive email, “the fork on the road” sent to federal workers in January. The employees until Monday to decide whether to leave the government service for wages and full benefits until the end of September.