by Alan Armstrong | Nov 21, 2019 | Civil Liberties, Drug Testing, Healthcare, Law, Legal, Pilot's Bill of Rights, Politics
DOT drug testing is an unmitigated disaster. The failures and abuses of DOT drug testing are being imposed on airmen who, if they cannot provide a sufficient quantity of urine, must confess to having a drug problem, even if they do not, if they want to fly. Even...
by Alan Armstrong | Oct 17, 2019 | Aircraft, Airport Vulnerability, Airports, Companies, Corporations, Law, Legal, Politics, Stop Airports Near Windfarms, Windfarms
The explosion of wind turbine developments across the United States does not bode well for the continued viability of many public use airports. Overview of the Problem Increasingly, wind farms with wind turbine generators (WTGs) nearly 500 feet above ground level...
by Alan Armstrong | Mar 19, 2019 | Accident, Aircraft, Engineering, Law, Legal
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737Max 8 operated as Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 crashed in the Java Sea. The aircraft exhibited an erratic flight profile concluding with a vertical dive into the sea. Assumptions, Speculation and Reasonable Inferences On October 29,...
by Alan Armstrong | Mar 8, 2019 | Airports, FAA, Law, Legal, Travel
by Alan Armstrong1 On February 22, 2019, the FAA Director of Airport Compliance found that the jet ban implemented by Palm Beach County at Lantana Airport violated FAA Sponsor Grant Assurance No. 22 which requires recipients of federal funds at public airports make...
by Alan Armstrong | Aug 15, 2018 | Airports, Law, Legal, Media appearance
On August 14th, 2018, Alan Armstrong, pilot and aviation lawyer, was interviewed on CBS 46 about Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia where unaccompanied minor was not permitted to board the flight after his aunt left him at the gate....
by Alan Armstrong | Aug 15, 2018 | Air Service, Airports, Law, Legal, Media appearance, Travel
On August 9th, 2018, Alan Armstrong, pilot and aviation lawyer, was interviewed by Brooke Baldwin of CNN on August 9, 2018, regarding Frontier Flight No. 1756 that was to have landed in Orlando but diverted to Atlanta and the lack of communication between the airline...
