FAA Regulations Passed For SMS at Commercial Airports – This Textbook Can Help
The FAA recently passed regulations requiring airports to implement safety management systems at commercial service airports. Several chapters of our book, Practical Airport Operations, Safety and Emergency Management: Protocols for Today and the Future, address...
NOTAM – Notice to Air Missions and the FAA Stop To Flights
I received a number of inquiries about the FAA stop to all flights due to a system outage related to Notice to Air Mission. Here is the scoop about NOTAM and why it is a critical system. A NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions), is essentially a message board system where...
Airports and Cyberwarfare
There are two kinds of people out there, those that have been hacked, and those that just don’t know it yet. Cyber is the new battlespace and it’s not just IT’s problem. It’s an airport security problem, and there’s a reason your Chief Information Officer is your new...
Why TSA will never find everything and why I’m okay with that
A man recently boarded a Frontier Airlines flight with a box cutter and was allegedly threatening passengers. The initial question was, how did he get through screening with box cutters, which have been prohibited since 9/11? Subsequent information apparently shows...
