Travel Safety Update.For more safety & security news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 3, 2006 FAA Administrator Marion Blakey Marion Clifton Blakey (born March 26, 1948) was the 15th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. She was the second woman to hold the position, serving as a successor to Jane Garvey, the first woman to hold the Administrator title. called ADS-B ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast "the enabler" for NGATS NGATS Next Generation Air Transportation System NGATS Next Generation Army Target System . Blakey, who announced last fall that ADS-B will be the cornerstone of future air traffic control, noted that it "will give us real-time cockpit This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation). A cockpit is the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft. displays of traffic information in the cockpit and on the ground." Genesis for NGATS is the "Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act" passed in 2003 by Congress that called for creation of the future system and proposed a public/private partnership to implement it managed by the Joint Planning and Development Office, which was created for that purpose. Jun 30, 2006 |
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