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5.3 Discussion

5.3 Discussion

Q Consider visiting some FAA and other aviation websites to search for an article or press release regarding a component of the Air Traffic Control system (ATC): Global Positioning System (GPS), Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), and Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), etc. You may need your ERNIE login credentials to access some of the following resources: FAA: NextGen (Links to an external site.) FAA: Air Traffic (Links to an external site.) FAA News (Links to an external site.) - do a search for press releases or the FAA Briefing Magazine (download magazine and feature articles) ERAU Research Guide: DAV 735 - Current Practices and Future Trends in Aviation (Links to an external site.) Then visit the Hunt Library, (Links to an external site.) and research for an article that supports your topic, if possible. Explain your topic and name its source or sources; does it defend the need for an updated National Air Space System? Explain and correlate the subject matter in terms of updating the safety and efficiency of the National Air Space System. Please post up to two articles, press releases, or webpages that helped with your research and explain their contribution, and post a link to Hunt Library articles.

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Weather has a long history of playing a role in general aviation (GA) accidents. GA continues to have the highest accident rate in aviation, both with and without hazardous weather as a contributing factor, and when hazardous weather is present, the likelihood of deaths increases dramatically (Federal Aviation Administration [FAA], 2010). GA has a greater likelihood of weather-related accidents and fatalities because GA planes are small and fly at low altitudes, and pilots may have less experience reading weather information