Importance of Ethics in Aviation

  Low Level Windshear: The invisible Enemy.   The heat radiation produced by the sun  and received by the many different surfaces on earth including, forest, cities, water and inhabited areas across the globe is the main reason of the constant changes in the atmosphere. The oval shape of the planet, wider by the equator and narrower by the poles receive surface radiation differently, thus it’s cooling down process at these many areas are also different. The product of this surface cooling (land and water) of warm, warmer and cool air elevates up to the atmosphere and further cools down, depending from where the cooling is occurring the different masses of air meet in the atmosphere producing rotational movement from different air pressures, this produces high and low pressure with late enables bigger air masses to travel across earth as fronts, these front could bring serious climate change in the form of tornados, tropical storms, thunderstorms, hail, among other weather...

  NATIONAL AIR SPACE, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT BETWEEN AIRPORT AND CENTER AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS  The airspace in the United States is  complex and structure well oil machine capable to handle thousands of airplanes in the air at the same time, but what really takes to manage all the traffic at once so well. Air traffic are divided among entities, each of them responsible to handle air traffic in different sectors, altitudes and airports inside the National Air Space (NAS). For now, we discussed the roll of Air Traffic Control Towers and Centers.  In the United States the airspace is  divided into 21 zones (sectors), within each zone are portions of airspace, about 50 miles in diameter called TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) airspace, and within each TRACON are a number of airports each of which has it’s own airspace that measures around 5 mile radius (FAA, 2006). These airspace structure allows traffic to flow smoother and safe (FAA, 2020).  Each entity...

Water Quality Issues in the Airport Environment.     Throughout time the demand for air travel  increased drastically, sometimes pushing airports beyond capacity forcing managers to plan plan on airport expansion to meet the inevitable demand. Aviation is growing, and that is generating huge benefits for the world, it’s protected that air travel will double in the next 20 years reaching 8.2 billion in 2037 (IATA, 2018).  The evident increasing demand will  require new airport infrastructure. At airports in the US alone Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) handled an a average of 53 million takeoffs and landings by 2019 a number that is projected to increase greatly in the later years (FAA, 2020). This operation saturation of air travel will trigger a robust infrastructure, increase traffic that will raise one of the concerns at airports which is water quality issues. Many airport activities result in the discharge of pollutants to adjacent water bodies such as aircraft...

  Legislative Act - Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 After February 12, 2009 an airplane  accident put aviation safety on the table, procedures, experience and practices were being analyzed to determine if crew member were truly qualified to operate an airline or if it was too premature to a pilot to be seated behind the controls of a passenger jet. It took a great effort from congress members, unions and airlines in general to adhere and work cohesively for the sole purpose of increasing the safety of crew and passengers. In 2010, a legislation changed the shape  of the aviation industry in the United States and the effect of the “1500 hour rule” bill was passes requiring new pilot certification, qualification and requirements to act as a pilot of an air carrier. The legislation act passed it required the FAA to draw up new lines on pilot experience, training and rest that mainly mandated to captains and first officers to posses an...