Stossel: privatize ATC
03-27-2023 | 08:03 AM
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I also think there's a difference between privatizing and outsourcing.
Outsource all you want, .gov retains controls and lets contracts to provide the service on terms specified by .gov. We don't necessarily need civil servants doing the job.
Privatizing is more like auctioning off blocks of airspace and letting the winner figure out how to turn a profit with user fees. Charge too much, and airlines will spend the fuel to fly around your sector lol.
Outsource all you want, .gov retains controls and lets contracts to provide the service on terms specified by .gov. We don't necessarily need civil servants doing the job.
Privatizing is more like auctioning off blocks of airspace and letting the winner figure out how to turn a profit with user fees. Charge too much, and airlines will spend the fuel to fly around your sector lol.
03-27-2023 | 08:53 AM
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I also think there's a difference between privatizing and outsourcing.
Outsource all you want, .gov retains controls and lets contracts to provide the service on terms specified by .gov. We don't necessarily need civil servants doing the job.
Privatizing is more like auctioning off blocks of airspace and letting the winner figure out how to turn a profit with user fees. Charge too much, and airlines will spend the fuel to fly around your sector lol.
Outsource all you want, .gov retains controls and lets contracts to provide the service on terms specified by .gov. We don't necessarily need civil servants doing the job.
Privatizing is more like auctioning off blocks of airspace and letting the winner figure out how to turn a profit with user fees. Charge too much, and airlines will spend the fuel to fly around your sector lol.
03-27-2023 | 01:40 PM
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You might want to spend some time jacked in on station with a controller. I did that a few weeks ago at MSP center. Right up front, I saw Stossel making claims that were straight up wrong:
- Flights are tracked by computer systems; the paper strips do exist but only as a backup.
- A number of NextGen technologies are already here: ADS-B is one, CPDLC is another
I had to turn it off after that. I side with him on lots of issues, but on this one it seems pretty clear he didn't bother to verify a couple of basic items and if he didn't do that, the rest of his piece is specious at best.
- Flights are tracked by computer systems; the paper strips do exist but only as a backup.
- A number of NextGen technologies are already here: ADS-B is one, CPDLC is another
I had to turn it off after that. I side with him on lots of issues, but on this one it seems pretty clear he didn't bother to verify a couple of basic items and if he didn't do that, the rest of his piece is specious at best.
Oh look, another pilot who thinks he's a constitutional scholar. LMAO.
03-27-2023 | 02:09 PM
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If you did give it to the states, all they would do is give it back to the feds, a la EUROCONTROL. They don't want it. Only a couple states are large enough to get away with charging overflight tariffs... the others are small enough to just fly around.
03-28-2023 | 07:43 AM
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Actually yes I have studied it extensively, but one doesn't have to be a scholar to understand it. It's written in plain English.
No, the Constitution doesn't give the feds that authority. Until there is a Constitutional amendment to that effect, then the feds are violating the Constitution.
No, the Constitution doesn't give the feds that authority. Until there is a Constitutional amendment to that effect, then the feds are violating the Constitution.
03-28-2023 | 12:54 PM
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Actually yes I have studied it extensively, but one doesn't have to be a scholar to understand it. It's written in plain English.
No, the Constitution doesn't give the feds that authority. Until there is a Constitutional amendment to that effect, then the feds are violating the Constitution.
No, the Constitution doesn't give the feds that authority. Until there is a Constitutional amendment to that effect, then the feds are violating the Constitution.
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