Air Traffic Control (ATC) Government Privatization Explained - Call to Action for General Aviation Private and Instrument Pilots and People Planning to Learn to Fly to Contact Congress

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🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

ATC Privatization On June 22, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives released H.R. 2997, the AIRR Act, calling for the privatization of Air Traffic Control in the U.S. Later, both EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, and NBAA, the National Business Aviation Association, issued an urgent call for members to contact their representatives in Congress to oppose ATC privatization. AOPA, the Aircraft Owner and Pilots Association, also sent a call for their members to contact their representations just before we published this show, which is why we weren't able to mention them in the podcast. Please take action by going to govt.eaa.org to generate a letter to your representatives in Congress. Please support my show by checking out my new Patreon Page. You will ultimately find lots of free posts on the page. To kick things off, I just posted a pdf of the Delta Airlines study on privatization, which you can download and read for free now. I've also posted results of an ATC Privatization survey of US pilots conducted of Airplane Geeks podcast listeners in February 2017. Please consider supporting my show with contributions of as little as $2 per month, also at my Patreon page. Today, I’m devoting this entire episode to privatization. I’ll be playing audio clips from the President, members of Congress, Airline CEOs, EAA CEO Jack Pelton, and from pilots in other countries that have privatized their air traffic control system. I’ll also share results of a survey of pilot podcast listeners on privatizing ATC. And to help me, I'm joined by Senior Editor of Flying Magazine, Rob Mark. You can Dictate a listener question from your phone and I’ll try to answer it on a future show, or send an email. Audio Clip sources

Review of Air Traffic Control Reform Proposals - Hearing Before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives. February 10, 2016. Video Hearing Transcript
Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Federal Aviation Administration Authorization - Hearing Before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives June 8, 2017. Video
Full Committee Markup - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives. June 27, 2017. Video

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0:00.0	I hear the government contracted for a system, that's the wrong system.
0:07.0	Now I hear that from pilots, so who would be better to tell me?
0:10.0	But I hear we're spending billions and billions of dollars.
0:14.0	It's a system that's totally at a whack.
0:18.0	Create an independent, not-for-profit corporation to provide air traffic services.
0:23.7	Fund the new service provider by fees assessed for air traffic service.
0:27.8	And also since the user fees have been introduced into the 1990s,
0:31.9	General Aviation has been dying a death of a thousand cuts here at Australia.
0:34.8	We have the safest and best system that moves more traffic by multiples over any other
0:41.2	country today.
0:42.9	It's affordable.
0:44.6	It's the best there is.
0:47.0	It's not broken.
0:48.6	And I keep asking, what problem are we trying to solve?
0:51.0	Can this system be safe and broken?
0:53.7	Or should I drive? It is safe, of course.
1:01.2	But the airlines on their own with no sabotage have managed to melt down their dispatch and their
1:06.0	reservation systems 36 times stranding millions of people so they can do it better, right?
1:11.9	Welcome to Aviation News Talk. I'm your host, Max Truscott, and I'm absolutely thrilled
1:16.3	today because we have a special co-host, who some of you know, and he'll be joining us in a
1:21.2	moment. But this show is different from prior shows because we're talking about only one issue,
1:26.2	and it's one that both he and I are passionate
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