Have the FAA ban all incoming and outgoing flights to ebola-stricken countries

Have the FAA ban all incoming and outgoing flights to ebola-stricken countries until the ebola outbreak is contained

The Ebola virus has reached unprecedented epidemic proportions in West Africa, and has been joined by another unrelated concurrent outbreak in the Congo. Experts had stated it was 'highly unlikely' that ebola would show up on American soil. But now it has, in the City of Dallas, Texas, brought here by an individual who entered our country from the West African nation of Liberia, where ebola is rampant. The citizens of the US are scared. We do not want any more ebola-infected individuals bringing the epidemic to our shores. The longer we allow people to enter our country from ebola-stricken areas, the higher the chance another person infected with ebola will arrive here, putting ALL of our citizens at risk. Please tell the FAA to ban ALL incoming flights from any/all ebola-stricken regions.

Created: Oct 01, 2014

Issues: Health Care, Homeland Security and Disaster Relief, Transportation and Infrastructure

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FAA - Chicago Terror Atrack was thorough

By Alan Levin

The first radio links with pilots were lost just as the pre-dawn crush of flights into Chicago began.

Air-traffic controllers in a nondescript Federal Aviation Administration building about 40 miles from the city switched to backup channels. Then those failed. They tried emergency connections, which also went dead.

Within minutes, radar feeds, flight plans and other data controllers rely on to direct more than 6,000 aircraft a day above five U.S. states had vanished as a fire was being set in a communications room one floor below. The attack was thorough and carried out by someone who knew the system intimately -- down to removing steel sheathing on data cables to destroy them, according to three people with knowledge of the incident.

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Of course Chicago's Useless Media had not and will never

make any mention of Terrorism, but We KNOW!

FAA Approves Drones for TV and Filmmakers

Are unmanned aircraft systems making movies near you?

Marlisse Silver Sweeney, Law Technology News

October 1, 2014    | 0 Comments

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It’s a plane. It’s a bird. It’s a drone?  Unmanned aircraft systems are coming to a theater near you—or perhaps making a movie near you. The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced it approved six exemptions for television and film production companies to operate UAS with their production work, according to Robert Mark in Aviation International News. But attorney Mark McKinnon, a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge, said the news comes with much fanfare, but it has been widely misunderstood by the media. He dispelled the most common myths in an article on the Plane-ly Spoken blog.

• All of Hollywood can fly drones. Nope, said McKinnon. Only the companies specializing in aerial filming that filed FAA petitions—and were granted them—have the ability. “As of right now, they essentially have a monopoly on all UAS aerial cinematography in the United States,” he said.

• Interns will be piloting UAS. Nope, unless they have a pilot’s license and a class three medical certificate, required by the FAA. “In addition, the exemption requires the pilot-in-command to have logged a minimum of 200 flights cycles,” and other requirements, said McKinnon.

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG DEFIES FAA, FLIES TO TEL AVIV TO 'SHOW SOLIDARITY' WITH ISRAELIS

by FRANCES MARTEL 23 Jul 2014, 5:39 AM PDT 54POST A COMMENT

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced via his website on Tuesday that he is en route to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, in defiance of an FAA decree handed down earlier preventing American commercial flights from flying into the airport.

According to Bloomberg's website, the former mayor is flying into Israel to prove that Ben Gurion airport remains safe, despite much of Israel being under constant threat of rockets flying in from Gaza, courtesy of the terrorist group Hamas. Bloomberg's decision to fly to Israel, he states, is meant "to show solidarity with the Israeli people and to demonstrate that it is safe to fly in and out of Israel." Bloomberg described Ben Gurion as "the best protected airport in the world" and attacked the FAA for its decision.

"The flight restrictions are a mistake that hands Hamas an undeserved victory and should be lifted immediately," Bloomberg writes, encouraging the FAA to rethink its decision. Earlier today, three United States airlines--Delta, United Airlines, and US Airways--canceled flights to Tel Aviv shortly before the FAA announced that flights to the city would be banned due to the threat of rocket fire. The FAA also cited a rocket landing near the airport as proof that the possibility of a plane being hit in mid-flight as sufficiently likely to ban the flights. European airlines shortly followed suit, barring airlines from flying over the territory.

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