Planes Over the Palisades in Washington DC

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• Check out NTSB daily DCA crash findings Recent Warnings and Dangerous Conditions at National 

• Say it ain't so! Sean Duffy appointed temporary NASA head. Mismanagement of U.S. airspace and now outerspace.  NY Times 

  • It gets worse - Duffy announces his priority to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.  What could possibly go wrong?   Meanwhile air traffic control continues to be a mess.  Politico 

• MWAA dragging its feet to develop a fly quiet program for DCA.  After 1&1/2 years, management has not even done "a concept of a plan"

• 07/24/25 MWAA CWG meeting Agenda 

• 04/24/25 MWAA CWG meeting sumary 

• Remember when the governments served its citizens?  On June 30, 2025, FAA rescinded its previous National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures and processes.  This means that they are limiting public outreach - we are fending on our own now!  Legal analysis - "If there is one takeaway from all of these changes it is that NEPA law and practice is changing quickly and business as usual is no longer appropriate." 

• EPA releases information on contrails see Health and student learning 

• Army ghosts victims of January aircrash. DCA control tower still understaffed, FAA leadership more talk than action.  Follow scorecard and timeline of incidents at DCA and Nightmare at Newark Airport recent warnings of dangerous conditions at National (the bad news just keeps piling up!)

• Heads-up, Congress considering lifting 50 year ban on supersonic flights 

• Potential noise relief for residents south of the airport (SOA) - study results 

• Nominee for FAA Adminstrator, Chris Rocheleau, misrepresents his pilot credentials see Recent Warnings and Dangerous Conditions at National 

• Checkout the daily arrivals and departures schedule on  fly quiet page 

• Why are DCA skies so over crowded? Because politically ignorant outside interests ignore risks of adding more flights.  Misguided Flight Expansion  

• NTSB uncovered 15,214 “near miss events” at DCA between 2021 and 2024 Uncontrolled Airspace 

• Talk like an "FAA'er" acyonym list 

• Letters of support from local Virgina, Maryland,and DC Officials for MWAA funding the Fly Quiet Program See Fly quiet program page