So that's where our FAA money is going...

[TangoWhiskey]

To buy over 27 ALSF-2 approach lighting systems and put them in STORAGE because they didn't plan well enough to have the funds to INSTALL them:

Current Status: Recent contracts have delivered 49 and 25 systems. There are 142 ALSF-2 in the NAS manufactured by Airflo (47), Godfrey (47), NBP (32), GE (6), Heavy Duty Substation (5), Westinghouse Substation (3), Hollingsworth (1), and other (1). Lack of installation funding has caused over 27 ALSF-2 systems to be placed in storage at the Logistics Center until funds are made available.

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Maybe that's why they want user fees? To raise the money to install the lights?

 

[KennyFlys]

I guess installation of approach lighing requires different skills than operating a leaf blower.

Government does very few things right and nothing well.
--Neal Boortz

 

[tonycondon]

shoot ill give em some money to pull them out of storage. Green Castle could use a lighting upgrade.

 

[Ken Ibold]

In fact, this kind of thing is WHY the whole idea of changing the FAA's funding structure arose in the first place. The capital budget and operating budgets go through separate approvals/funding cycles, and each is subject to the whim of congressional amendments and executive branch tinkering. It's also not unusual to have equipment bought and installed, but no money to pay for training.

The airline-dominated user fee scheme would have, among other things, taken the FAA out of the congressional budget cycle to prevent this kind of thing. It's not a function of FAA incompetence, it's a function of the weird way Washington as a whole works.

 

[JohnR]

. . . and those who just can't wait for a government controlled health care system better pay attention.