Category Archives: Regulatory

Some Things Do Not Change: Aviation Groups Object to Protecting Public Health Through Enforceable Noise Standards

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Steven M. Taber

Some things never change. The airport and airline groups lobbying Congress that a new, beautiful, noise-free future is “just around the corner” so there is no need for enforceable noise standards. http://bit.ly/2MuInpd In 1972 during the Senate debate on the … Continue reading →

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DOT Inspector General Takes Some Shots at FAA

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Steven M. Taber

The Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General was busy this week, particularly with respect to issues relating to the #FAA. On Wednesday, Matthew E. Hampton Assistant Inspector General for Aviation Audits, gave testimony regarding #FAA’s air traffic controller … Continue reading →

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Congress, in Passing the Noise Control Act of 1972, Wanted FAA to Develop Enforceable Standards and Airports to Develop Programs to Protect the Public Health and Welfare

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Steven M. Taber

The debates and legislative history of the Noise Control Act of 1972 evidence a desire on the part of Congress to set noise standards in the “airport environment” which must be met “in order to protect the public health and … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles City Attorney Files First Criminal Charges Against Drone Operator; Raises Questions of Federal Pre-Emption

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Steven M. Taber

Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer filed criminal charges against two men for flying drones in the vicinity of a hospital and police heliports. They will be the first to face criminal charges under Los Angeles’ new drone restrictions, and … Continue reading →

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Drones Once Again Top Aviation News

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Steven M. Taber

Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that he would introduce a bill that would force drone manufacturers to implement technology that would keep “unmanned aerial vehicles” (#UAV) or “unmanned aerial systems” (#UAS) or “drones” as everyone else calls them away from … Continue reading →

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FAA Whiffs Again on “CatEx2,” Proposes Underwhelming Replacement to NAC’s “Net Noise Reduction.”

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Steven M. Taber

After the Congress put an aviation industry-friendly categorical exclusion into the FAA Reauthorization of 2012, the FAA could not figure out how to implement the provision that stated that in order for it to use the categorical exclusion, there had … Continue reading →

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Aircraft Noise Regulation Must Be Revised to Protect the Public Health and Welfare

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Steven M. Taber

On February 6, 2015, an aviation industry trade group published a letter (http://bit.ly/1zLsrzR ) it had sent to the Secretary of Transportation and the FAA Administrator regarding, among other things, the recent events in Phoenix and exhorted the FAA in … Continue reading →

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FAA Announces New Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Regulations

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Steven M. Taber

Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced on a Sunday, February 15, 2015, conference call that the FAA would publish its long-awaited proposed regulations for commercial use of small drones. Copy of NPRM: http://1.usa.gov/1yGVSD5 Copy of … Continue reading →

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RTCA’s Paper on “CatEx 2” for NextGen Implementation is Legally Indefensible

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Steven M. Taber

Last year, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (FMRA) http://1.usa.gov/13T4RGi was passed. Included in that law was a provision that provided that: Any navigation performance or other performance based navigation procedure developed, certified, published, or implemented that, in the … Continue reading →

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Aviation Stories We Have Been Following This Past Week

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Steven M. Taber

Here are some of the news stories we have been following this past week, July 22 – 26, 2013.  Most these were posted on Taber Law Group, P.C.’s Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter account.  Please follow us on one or … Continue reading →

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