In this issue of AeroSafety World, we dedicated two articles (“Getting Out” and “Marching Orders”) to provisions contained in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, a piece of legislation recently passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Trump. The measure authorizes funding for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years and includes dozens of safety- and non-safety-related directives for FAA, the Department of Transportation and the National Transportation Safety Board.
Flight Safety Foundation is an international organization and we try not to focus too much on the United States despite the fact that we were founded in New York and our main office is located just outside Washington. But five-year funding bills don’t get approved very oft…
