02-03-2025, 07:45 PM
(02-03-2025, 06:48 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: "At the time of the collision, one air traffic controller at Reagan was overseeing both helicopters and planes, an air traffic control source told CNN. Though the jobs are typically handled by two people, the source said having one person handle both isn’t uncommon.
Still, a preliminary Federal Aviation Administration report found that staffing at the airport’s traffic control tower was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the New York Times reported Thursday. That corresponds with an issue highlighted in one of the previous near-miss reports from 2022, in which a controller said that there wasn’t enough staffing at the airport tower."
If you're going to fire people, at least replace them with AI.
Reduce the traffic in the airspace to allowable levels based on the number of air traffic controllers currently on staff.
Those protocols are in place for a reason, and there needs to be serious ramifications for breaking them.
I have read that up to 90$ or ATC facilities are under staffed, and they have fallen behind in tech as well as. Might be more to the story that will be uncovered as well in the weeks to come?
