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-== The giant hangar poised for an aviation revolution ==
-Airships could offer a much cleaner and quieter alternative for some aspects of the aviation market. In a former airship factory, a new generation are taking shape.
-Mark Piesing - 21st June 2022
-Sergey Brin turned internet search into one of the world’s most valuable businesses more than two decades ago. Now he intends to improve a technology which had its heyday long before he was born.
-Brin and his team of engineers' plan is to do this by reinventing a much older, if improved technology. A new generation of airships – the lighter-than-air craft that don't need conventional airports – will be built in a corner of Ohio which played a unique part in the history of aviation. What's more, if built they will be housed in one of America's most iconic structures, the Goodyear Airdock in Akron.
-Airships could help speed up the delivery of aid in disaster zones, carry air cargo much more cheaply than air freighters, and cut aviation emissions. However, similar projects in the past have struggled to overcome the complex engineering challenges involved, and have either run out of money, or left potential customers disillusioned.
-"Flying an airship is unlike flying any other aircraft because it’s lighter than air and floats, instead of sinks, when you put the power at idle," says Andrea Deyling, a pilot and director of airship operations of Brin’s airship company, LTA Research. "There’s also a sense of wonder people have when they see a lighter-than-air vehicle flying overhead. LTA Research is building a unique airship and I can't wait to get into the actual aircraft and fly it."
-https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220621-the-giant-hangar-poised-for-an-aviation-revolution
 == What it's like to land on the world's shortest commercial runway ==
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+== How to fix America's aviation system ==
+November 15, 2023 - Daniel Ackerman & Meghna Chakrabarti
+It’s been almost 15 years since the last deadly plane crash on a U.S. airline. But near misses are on the rise, up 25% in the past decade.
+That's a massive jump — caused by a sudden coalescing of several aviation issues that have lurked under the surface for years.
+One, the FAA’s required ground radar and control systems are antiquated.
+"They’re built on very old computers. Some are updated with floppy disks, and I kid you not," Paul Rinaldi, president emeritus of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says.
+Two, air traffic controllers are aging out of the system and those still working are exhausted.
+"Most of the controls are working 60-hour work weeks," Rinaldi adds.
+Is it fixable?
+https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/11/15/how-to-fix-americas-aviation-system
+== Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them ==
+Extended hours after the pandemic have put pressure on pilots in India, who are working longer hours without rest, but monitoring technology to help curb overworking is glitchy and hard to find.
+Parni Ray - Sep 26, 2024 4:00 AM
+India’s $13.9 billion aviation industry—projected to cater to over 300 million domestically by 2030—is a ticking time bomb.
+This July, in the sweltering heat at the Delhi High Court, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati announced that new rules on pilot duty and rest periods would not be implemented this year after all. Introduced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in January, the rules were designed specifically to combat pilot fatigue. They were set to take effect in June, but were abruptly retracted. The hearing addressed a writ petition filed by the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), seeking clarity on when the new norms would be enforced. The DGCA’s response followed its request to airline companies in April for a tentative implementation timeline.
+Concerns over pilot fatigue had been mounting in the months leading up to the announcement of the new Flight Duty Period, Flight Time Limitations, and Prescribed Rest Periods by the DGCA. The urgency deepened in November 2023 when a 37-year-old Air India pilot, Captain Himanil Kumar, collapsed at Delhi Airport while training to fly the airline's Boeing 777 fleet, and later died at the hospital. Kumar was the second Indian pilot to die on duty within three months; in August, Captain Manoj Subramanyam, a 40-year-old IndiGo pilot, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest just minutes before his flight from Nagpur.
+https://www.wired.com/story/pilots-are-dying-of-tiredness-tech-cant-save-them/
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+===== Costs =====
+== $83 Billion Wasted: Showing Up At The Airport 3 Hours Before Your Flight Is A System Failure No One’s Trying To Fix ==
+Gary Leff - July 30, 2025
+Flight delays get a lot of attention, and certainly mechanical and staffing issues are the fault of the airline. There’s also air traffic control which creates congestion – it isn’t just responsible for delays but also for longer flight times that get built into schedules. We don’t talk enough about that.
+Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?
+https://viewfromthewing.com/83-billion-wasted-showing-up-at-the-airport-3-hours-before-your-flight-is-a-system-failure-no-ones-trying-to-fix/
+== Time Theft at the Terminal ==
+Alex Tabarrok - August 3, 2025 at 7:12 am
+Travel expert Gary Leff on the billions in wasted time spent at airports:
+<blockquote>
+    Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?
+</blockquote>
+As Gary points out airport delay wipes out many technological advancements:
+<blockquote>
+    The lengthened times for showing up at the airport mean that it no longer even makes sense for many people to take shorter flights, but aircraft technology (electric, short and vertical takeoff) is changing and becoming far more viable in the coming years…The FAA is considering standards for vertiports but are we thinking creatively enough or will that conversation be too status quo-focused either because of regulator bias or because it’s entrenched interests most involved?
+    More and smaller airports are needed. Streamlined security, that doesn’t wait for nationwide universal rollout, is needed. We need runways and taxiways and air traffic capacity to increase throughput without stacking delays. Most of all, we need to avoid complacency that accepts the status quo as given.
+</blockquote>
+https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/time-theft-at-the-terminal.html
 ===== Flight Simulator =====
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 ====== Flight Data ======
+== National Airspace System Status ==
+Dashboard of airports and Aviation issues
+https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
+== Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft ==
+Taylor Rains and Grace Kay - Jan 25, 2023, 3:46 PM
+The college student who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he's worried the tracking software he uses to keep tabs on celebrity aircraft could soon be yanked from the public after it was sold Wednesday.
+Aviation data company JetNet said on Wednesday that it bought ADS-B Exchange, a free website that tracked thousands of commercial aircraft around the world.
+Now it's unclear whether the flight information on the ADS-B exchange will remain free to the public. Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old student behind the @ElonJetNextDay account and other Twitter accounts that track celebrity jets, said selling the company violates the spirit of the air enthusiast community that's powered the site. He's even calling for a boycott.
+https://www.businessinsider.com/student-tracks-elon-musk-jet-calls-for-boycott-adsb-exhange-2023-1
+== The Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet Just Took a Left Turn ==
+ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
+Justin Ling - Jan 27, 2023 7:00 AM
+A major independent flight tracking platform, which has made enemies of the Saudi royal family and Elon Musk, has been sold to a subsidiary of a private equity firm. And its users are furious.
+ADS-B Exchange has made headlines in recent months for, as AFP put it, irking “billionaires and baddies.” But in a Wednesday morning press release, aviation intelligence firm Jetnet announced it had acquired the scrappy open source operation for an undisclosed sum.
+Jetnet mostly provides intelligence for the aviation industry and was itself acquired by private equity firm Silversmith Capital Partners last year. According to a company press release, “the acquisition is the second of what the company anticipates will be several future acquisitions as Jetnet expands its data-driven product offerings for the aviation industry.”
+https://www.wired.com/story/ads-b-exchange-jetnet-sale/
+== The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn ==
+ADS-B Exchange is now owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
+Justin Ling, wired.com - 1/29/2023, 3:21 AM
+A major independent flight tracking platform, which has made enemies of the Saudi royal family and Elon Musk, has been sold to a subsidiary of a private equity firm. And its users are furious.
+ADS-B Exchange has made headlines in recent months for, as AFP put it, irking “billionaires and baddies.” But in a Wednesday morning press release, aviation intelligence firm Jetnet announced it had acquired the scrappy open source operation for an undisclosed sum.
+Jetnet mostly provides intelligence for the aviation industry and was itself acquired by private equity firm Silversmith Capital Partners last year. According to a company press release, “the acquisition is the second of what the company anticipates will be several future acquisitions as Jetnet expands its data-driven product offerings for the aviation industry.”
+The deal wasn’t exactly welcomed by the user base that makes up ADBS-B Exchange. “I don’t see a long future for ADSBx under a PE [private equity] firm,” one user wrote on ADS-B Exchange’s Discord server. “And definitely not the information-for-all we-show-all-the-data service it is today. The paycheck was bigger than the vision.”
+https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/the-flight-tracker-that-powered-elonjet-has-taken-a-left-turn/
 ===== FlightAware =====
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 https://slashdot.org/story/21/11/08/1815206/china-bans-flightradar24
+== Live Near An Airport? FlightRadar24 Wants To Give You A Free ADS-B Receiver ==
+Live near an airport and want to do your bit? FlightRadar24 hopes to perfect tracking in such catchments.
+Henry Wood - 23 July 2023
+The world's most trusted plane tracker, FlightRadar24, is keen to distribute specialized Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receivers, so tracking services may improve in areas of equally high congestion and interest.
+Between 30 and 50 kits are sent to volunteer hosts each month and their interactive, DIY nature makes for a relished contribution to the world of modern aviation. The kits contain a receiver, antenna and all the necessary cabling for any hosts who apply and qualify. Hosts also receive a free FlightRadar24 Business Plan subscription worth US $499.99.
+https://simpleflying.com/free-ads-b-receiver-flightradar24/
+== Flightradar24’s new GPS jamming map ==
+Ian Petchenik - Updated March 19, 2024
+We’re pleased to release our new GPS jamming map tool. The new map allows users to view areas of GPS jamming and interference around the world in an easy to understand visual format.
+The map uses are color coded overlay to indicate low (green) to high (red) levels of interference with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Often just referred to as GPS, there are actually multiple systems beside the US GPS constellation, such as Russia’s GLONASS, Europe’s Galileo, China’s BeiDou, and others.
+https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/gps-jamming-map/
 ===== FlightStats =====
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+====== General Aviation ======
+== The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment ==
+November 25, 2020 - Jay O'Donnell
+When I learned to fly in the 1980s, the school’s fleet was comprised of already decade-old Cessna 172s, most of which clearly showed their age and the toll of countless training maneuvers, hard landings, and checkrides. The seats and interiors were already well-worn and faded, seat belts stained and produced odors of the many previous occupants, plastic dashboards cracked and re-glued multiple times, the original 1960s NAV/COM radios scratchy with often only one properly functioning, not to mention the multiple cowling screw heads stripped from a decade of inspections, oil changes, and engine overhauls.
+Back then I paid $45 per hour, wet, for a 172. The CFI cost me another $15-$20/hour depending if VFR or IFR training, and there was no requirement to have your own renter’s insurance (the FBO did offer a $3/hr option that would limit max deductible to $500, but few took then up on the offer). My PPL cost me about $3,500 total, including checkride and even a shiny new Peltor folding headset. There were plenty of planes to rent at numerous small airports due to “trickle-down economics” tax laws that made lease-backs make financial sense. Cessna was producing the same 172s at a rate of over 2,000 a year to pacify demand of FBOs, flight schools, flying clubs, as well as personal buyers—who viewed the price tag of about $17,000 as feasible.
+https://airfactsjournal.com/2020/11/the-20-an-hour-cessna-172-experiment/
+====== GPS ======
+===== Jamming =====
+== GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic for the first time ==
+Suspected cyber attack on transatlantic route leads to new fears of electronic warfare
+Benedict Smith, US Reporter - 20 June 2024 10:07pm
+A plane’s GPS was jammed on a commercial transatlantic route for the first time, raising fears thousands of other flights are at risk of being deliberately hacked.
+The flight from Madrid to Toronto is likely to have been deliberately targeted rather than being accidentally caught in the “usual spillover” of electronic warfare, one analyst said.
+The suspected cyber attack happened in the northeastern Atlantic when a pilot reported being blocked from ascending to a higher altitude because the GPS (global positioning system) of the aircraft above them had been jammed, according to the Institute for the Study of War think tank.
+The cause of the jamming has not yet been identified, but GPS jamming has been recently reported over Poland and the Baltic region and attributed to Russian electronic warfare.
+https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/20/gps-jammed-commercial-transatlantic-flight/
+====== History ======
+== Remembering what flying was like fifty years ago ==
+Fifty years ago, I soloed a Cessna 172.  The FAA Wright Brothers Awards notwithstanding, it wasn’t really fifty years ago – yes, 2023 – 1973 = 50 – but it was only 49 years ago, and I flew on the 49th anniversary of first solo. But let’s call it fifty.
+One October back in ’73, my instructor and I flew from Hanscom Field, outside Boston, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Actually, I thought I was ready the lesson before, and I flew better on that lesson, but he didn’t solo me then.
+There was no pre-solo endorsement in my logbook, nor for the instrument and commercial flight tests the next year. None were required. In fact, none of my logbooks have any endorsements for any flight test.
+https://airfactsjournal.com/2024/03/remembering-what-flying-was-like-fifty-years-ago/
+March 4, 2024 - Ed Wischmeyer
+====== Restricted Air Space ======
+===== White House =====
+== Flying High ==
+Leonard and Sondra Nones - Jan 12, 2018
+When I owned Piper N47943, a four seat single engine airplane, I thought it prudent not to fly myself to assignments. I did not want the stress of being the pilot and the photographer. But, when I got an assignment to go to Washington DC to simply take straight on photographs of several monuments, I thought no stress why not fly, take the pictures and fly home. It was a perfect summer day. CAVU all the way. (Cieling and Visability Unlimited). I filed a visual flight plan and we were on our way. I was very naive in my selection of airports in the DC area. My choise was Washington National, right in the middle of town, and a very busy place.
+The trip down was beautiful and I made a smooth landing on the 6000 foot runway. As I was taxing to my parking place, I received a radio call from ground control. The caller advised me to make a reservation for my departure. He gave me a phone number and instructed me to call one hour before we would be ready to take off. The art director and I rented a car and we drove around Washington. I took the photographs and we went to lunch.
+https://nones-leonard.medium.com/flying-high-8536fa403324