Safety and Technology

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are one of the fastest-growing segments of the National Airspace System (NAS). There are over 1.2 million drones registered in the United States and that number is projected to grow to over […]

I extend a warm welcome to all attendees of NATCA’s 2018 Communicating For Safety (CFS) Conference. Past CFS attendees may notice a change in this year’s program. In our effort to continue to make CFS the […]

Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert has served on the RTCA Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) since it first met in September 2016. The committee was established to provide an open venue for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]

The Editor would like to thank NATCA Washington Center member Jaymi Steinberg, who serves on the Technical Operations Committee (TOC) of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA), for her contributions to this article […]

By: Aaron Rose, NATCA Terminal Automation Representative Photos courtesy of Raytheon. Imagine for a moment that software and hardware designers for smartphones never actually used the equipment they developed. They never handled it, never opened the […]