Why have humans got such a compulsion to be anywhere but where they are, so much of the time?
#airTraffic #travel

US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks

Most air traffic control towers currently use paper strips to track aircraft movements and transfer data between systems using floppy disks, while their computers run Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system

#airtraffic #FAA #airline #aiport #travel #windows95 #technology #tech

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/06/faa-to-retire-floppy-disks-and-windows-95-amid-air-traffic-control-overhaul/

Des compagnies comme Air France, Emirates et Lufthansa annulent des vols vers le Moyen‑Orient après les frappes d’Israël sur l’Iran. Fermeture d'espaces aériens : Irak, Jordanie, Iran, Israël.
🔗 https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/air-france-emirates-lufthansa-les-frappes-d-israel-en-iran-provoquent-des-annulations-de-vols-en-cascade-au-moyen-orient-20250613
#MoyenOrient #AirTraffic #FlightDisruption #AviationNews #Géopolitique

✅ 🛫 #jordan reopened #airspace to civilian air traffic starting 7:30 a.m.-CARC

#amman – Chairman of Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC), Cpt Haitham Misto, announced Jordan has reopened its airspace starting 7:30 a.m. local-t

In a statement Friday, CARC had announced a temporary closure of the Kingdom's airspace and suspension of all #airtraffic through the Kingdom, in anticipation of any risks that could arise from the region's ongoing escalation.

JNA

https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=72438&lang=en&name=en_news&cat=en_news

U.S. Transportation Department launches bold plan to modernize air traffic control. American control towers still use 1980s floppy disks for data transfer and 30-year-old Windows 95 for flights monitoring software.
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13682
#windows95 #microsoft #duffy #airtraffic #FAA #trump

📢 ISR media reports that #airtraffic to Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) has been suspended following the launch of a missile from #yemen

#airspace #aviation

Source: YNA JUN-05 22:00 local-t

https://en.ypagency.net/358837

What can be done about Canada's air traffic controller shortage? | Hanomansing Tonight
Air Line Pilots Association Canada president Tim Perry outlines where the industry is at today and what progress he hopes to see as the country faces an air traffic controller shortage, which an Air Canada pilot called out during a recent flight.
#airtraffic #shortage #pilot #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6775425?cmp=rss

📢 ISR media have highlighted the resumption of operations at #sanaa International Airport, nearly 10 days after it was subjected to a devastating ISR attack

This comes at a time when #airtraffic at Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) has been reduced to an unprecedented degree.

“Times of Israel” reported that - what it described as “the Houthis’ success” in resuming flights to and from Sanaa airport - represents a remarkable development.

#yemen #airspace

📰 Source: YNA MAY-20

https://en.ypagency.net/357177

This #AirTraffic Controller Just Averted a Midair #Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. #FAA #airports #airlines #collisions #disaster #stress #mentalhealth #OSHA #transportation #crashes #Firing FAA employees in January 2025 compromised safety for every passenger within America and those flying into the country. It was reckless, #discriminatory #punitive #stupid and #venal https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-air-traffic-controller-just-averted-a-midair-collision-now-he-s-speaking-out/ar-AA1ERo30

#Denver lost #AirTraffic communications for a while
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/05/16/denver-air-traffic-control-communications-outage/83659196007/

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife’s Flight to Avoid Newark Airport

He goes on TV and says everything is great at #Newark Airport but then admits that he changed wife's flights so she didn't have to go through Newark

#FAA #Airport #Danger #AirTraffic

https://gizmodo.com/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-changed-his-wifes-flight-to-avoid-newark-airport-2000601796

⚠️ Aviation alert: Newark Airport suffers another radar & communications blackout 🚨🛫

🕒 A 90-second outage took down radar and radio systems
✈️ This marks the second major disruption since April 28
👨‍✈️ Air traffic controllers—many on trauma leave—are stretched thin
📉 The incident led to hundreds of flight delays and cancellations

This highlights the urgent need for:
🔧 Rapid upgrades to aging ATC infrastructure
👥 Robust staffing and mental health support for controllers
🛡️ Enhanced redundancy and failover systems

How is your organization preparing for critical infrastructure failures?

#Aviation #AirTraffic #Infrastructure #Safety #ATC
https://www.nj.com/news/2025/05/newark-airport-hit-by-another-radar-blackout-as-chaos-continues.html

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Ukrainian drones hit Russian fiber optic plant in Saransk — Theater, drag shows, an&d art studios; Kharkiv’s cultural scene thrives, even in wartime — Military communications in Moscow Oblast sabotaged amid Russia’s Victory Day celebrations — [video/vlog] How Putin weaponized WW2 and Victory Day, historian explains … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/thursday-may-8-2025/

The dawn of urban air mobility and vertiports

We all may soon be witnessing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) zipping across the skies of metropolitan areas around the globe. In 2022, FAA approved vertiport standards for the United States. More recently, plans have been set forth for the development of vertiports in a number of American cities, as well as overseas.

These may be located on ground-based sites or atop buildings and other suitable structures. The ground-breaking differences in urban air mobility will include:

• Quieter operations using electric aircraft
• Zero emissions
• Smaller footprints than traditional airports due to the vertical takeoff/landing ability of the aircraft, though these may be larger than existing heliports.
• Likelihood of future unmanned operations for parcel and freight services.
• Flights at 5,000 feet or below

For city planners, these air mobility facilities (a.k.a. air taxis) will become more and more common as we move further into the second half of the 2020s. And this trend will continue to takeoff numerically over the next several decades. If you think this is just a pipe dream, take note that as of February 2025, more than 1,500 vertiports are currently planned around the globe with approximately 25 percent of those now contracted.

If your community is home to a commercial or business-related airport, has a dynamic downtown, port facilities, major sport stadiums, or clusters of major business headquarters, major parcel distribution facilities, hospitals, and universities, it will no-doubt become a focus of attention for urban air mobility operations. NOW is definitely the time to begin preparing your master plans and zoning regulations for the dawn of this new age of urban and regional transportation.

Among the many issues to consider for city planners are:

• Ground connections to transit options
• On-site/off-site parking
• Hours of operation
• Landing/takeoff patterns – particularly in relation to other airports and vertiports
• Operation height of aircraft over residential areas – potential sound from rotors
• Lighting
• Landscaping
• Truck traffic for parcel and freight operations
• Emergency services and security

Below are brief summaries of some of the vertiport projects that are open and operational or under development. Peace!

ABU DHABI, UAE

Three (3) vertiports are planned including Yas Island, where the new Disney theme park is planned, Bateen, and Khalifa Port.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA

Vertiport Chicago has opened just to the west of The Loop. Electric air taxis, include planned service by United Airlines will initially connect the vertiport with O’Hare International Airport.

“The early launch routes will focus in on airport to city center transportation service, which are referred to as “trunk” routes. Once the trunk routes have been established, the next step will be to build out “branch” routes to connect to surrounding communities.”

Source: vertiportchicago.com

COLOGNE/BONN, GERMANY

DUBAI, UAE

Four (4) vertiports are planned in Dubai, with the first approved site at Dubai International Airport. This location is to be named Dubai International Vertiport (DXV). Service by commercial air taxis is to begin in 2026.

HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA

A proposed urban air mobility network is being developed in the Houston area.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA

Downtown Skyport (formerly the downtown Manhattan Heliport).

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA

A new vertiport at Orlando International airport is expected to open in 2028.

OSAKA, JAPAN

Osaka Metro opened its first vertiport (OsakaKo) for demonstrations during the Expo 2025 World’s Fair. Three more vertiports are planned in the metropolitan area.

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Vertiport Galileo opened in 2023 as a drone vertiport at Future Mobility Park in Rotterdam.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA

TechPort San Antonio is being developed by Port San Antonio.

SEBRING, FLORIDA, USA

Even some smaller cities like Sebring are considering the air mobility future. A vertiport is scheduled to be added to the Sebring Regional Airport in 2026 as a mid-state location for connecting to multiple major airports in the Sunshine State.

Testing facilites:

Bicester, England, UK

Pontoise-Cormeilles, France

SOURCES:

• https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-releases-vertiport-design-standards-support-safe-integration-advanced-air-mobility
• https://skyports.net/nycedc-unveils-downtown-skyport-as-new-operator-takes-over-city-owned-heliport/
• https://skyports.net/vertiports/
• https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-new-operator-downtown-manhattan-heliport
• https://www.asdnews.com/news/aerospace/2022/11/11/vertiport-testbed-european-urban-air-mobility-testing-inaugurated-paris
• https://evaint.com/orlando-international-airport-unveils-plans-for-vertiport-to-support-evtol-aircraft-by-2028/
• https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/futureflight/2024-06-26/ferrovial-teams-evtol-operator-urbanlink-develop-florida
• https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220007100/downloads/Vertiport%20Considerations%20Paper%20Final%20v2.pdf
• https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/new-city-projects/wisk-shows-plans-for-six-vertiport-houston-city-autonomous-evtol-network/
• https://www.portsanantonio.us/AAM
• https://www.vertiportchicago.com
• https://www.midfloridanewspapers.com/highlands_news-sun/airport-to-build-landing-area-for-eplanes/article_057b235e-6fa7-11ef-9518-f7c4835cf30b.html
• https://www.porttechnology.org/news/first-drone-vertiport-now-operational-in-the-netherlands/
• https://www.alojapan.com/1230012/osaka-metro-completes-vertiport-for-expo-2025/
• https://en.skydrive2020.com/archives/14888
• https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/uam-infrastructure/1504-vertiports-now-planned-for-construction-worldwide-latest-global-aam-uam-market-map-report/
• https://www.designboom.com/technology/meet-midnight-evtol-chicago-first-air-taxi-sustainable-low-noise-mobility-03-25-2023/
• https://www.vertiportchicago.com/newsroom

#airMobility #airTaxis #airTraffic #airTravel #airports #aviation #cities #environment #eVTOL #FAA #geography #landUse #planning #transportation #travel #urbanMobilityAircraft #vertiports

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

‘Putin doesn’t want peace, he wants Ukraine;’ Pence rebukes Trump’s stance on Russia — Russian Baltic Sea provocations increasing threat of accidental military incidents, Latvian intelligence says — Ukraine stabilizes Pokrovsk front, seizes tactical initiative in some areas — Russian soldiers executed 3 unarmed Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/wednesday-may-7-2025/

JFC just now hearing the news about the major f'ing outage at Newark airport!!! WTF?!?! This is outrageous (*sigh* another day more more outrage, I'm so tired of this crap) #Newark #FAA #AirTraffic

Air traffic control problems follow layoffs of air traffic control staff #EconTwitter #airtraffic
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/air-traffic-control-problems-follow.html

🕹️ Title: ATC-pie
🦊️ What's: A libre simulation of air traffic control (ATC)
🏡️ https://sourceforge.net/projects/atc-pie/
🐣️ https://gitlab.com/atc-pie
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #Sim #AirTraffic
📦️ #Libre #Bin
📖 Our entry: https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html
🕵‍ 1.9.0: 👏️⭐⭐⭐⭐

🥁️ Update: 1.9.1
⚗️ New features 💎
📌️ Changes: https://gitlab.com/atc-pie/atc-pie/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://gitlab.com/atc-pie/atc-pie/-/commit/103393c10fdfec3d7e95c07bbd8fe65e2d60f753
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://sourceforge.net/projects/atc-pie/rss?path=/

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PL1EQKKHhDVJvvWpcX_BqeOIsmeW2A_8Yb
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/JuiQyLUIzpA
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/2U7HQP1IhHE

🕹️ Title: ATC-pie
🦊️ What's: A libre simulation of air traffic control (ATC)
🏡️ https://sourceforge.net/projects/atc-pie/
🐣️ https://gitlab.com/atc-pie
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #Sim #AirTraffic
📦️ #Libre #Bin
📖 Our entry: https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html
🕵‍ 1.9.0: 👏️⭐⭐⭐⭐

🥁️ Update: 1.6.2➜1.9.0
⚗️ Major release (Stable) 🍎️
📌️ Changes: https://gitlab.com/atc-pie/atc-pie/blob/master/ChangeLog
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://sourceforge.net/projects/atc-pie/rss?path=/

🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=PL1EQKKHhDVJvvWpcX_BqeOIsmeW2A_8Yb
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/JuiQyLUIzpA
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/2U7HQP1IhHE

Is DEI hindering air traffic safety? Sean Duffy proposes to scrutinize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hiring at the FAA after a controversial audio leak. He argues these practices dilute qualifications, much like law school admissions. Critics warn that such claims distract from rising air traffic incidents and suggest underlying racial motives. Explore the full article for a deeper look at this heated debate. [Read more](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/sean-duffy-raicist-tiread-against-air) #FAA #DEI #AirTraffic #Racism #PolicyAnalysis