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 | Nov 11, 2019 | Airport Vulnerability, Legal, Stop Airports Near Windfarms, Windfarms
Scientists are just coming to appreciate the problems large fields of WTGs can cause for Air Traffic Control Radar and Weather Radar facilities. Wind turbine generators (WTGs) are increasingly littering the landscape. However, their adverse impact on primary and...
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 19, 2019 | Accident, Aircraft, FAA, Legal, Media appearance
On March 13 2019, Alan Armstrong, aviation attorney and pilot is interviewed by CNN journalist George Howell about the crashes of two Boeing 737 max 8 aircraft, the executive order by President Trump grounding the aircraft and the failure to provide differences...
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...
