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 https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/11/15/how-to-fix-americas-aviation-system https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/11/15/how-to-fix-americas-aviation-system
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 +== Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them ==
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 +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.
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 +Parni Ray - Sep 26, 2024 4:00 AM
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 +India’s $13.9 billion aviation industry—projected to cater to over 300 million domestically by 2030—is a ticking time bomb.
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 +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.
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 +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.
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 +https://www.wired.com/story/pilots-are-dying-of-tiredness-tech-cant-save-them/
  
  
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 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-russia-flights-resume-after-air-traffic-suspension/a-57757954 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-russia-flights-resume-after-air-traffic-suspension/a-57757954
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 +===== Costs =====
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 +== $83 Billion Wasted: Showing Up At The Airport 3 Hours Before Your Flight Is A System Failure No One’s Trying To Fix ==
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 +Gary Leff - July 30, 2025
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 +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.
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 +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?
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 +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/
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 +== Time Theft at the Terminal ==
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 +Alex Tabarrok - August 3, 2025 at 7:12 am
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 +Travel expert Gary Leff on the billions in wasted time spent at airports:
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 +<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?
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 +As Gary points out airport delay wipes out many technological advancements:
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 +    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?
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 +    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.
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 +https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/time-theft-at-the-terminal.html
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 ===== Flight Simulator ===== ===== Flight Simulator =====
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 ====== Flight Data ====== ====== Flight Data ======
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 +== National Airspace System Status ==
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 +Dashboard of airports and Aviation issues
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 +https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
  
 == Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft == == Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft ==
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 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/the-flight-tracker-that-powered-elonjet-has-taken-a-left-turn/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/the-flight-tracker-that-powered-elonjet-has-taken-a-left-turn/
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