Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS

plover writes "The US Senate on Monday passed by a 93-0 margin a bill that would implement the FAA's NextGen plan to replace aviation radar with GPS units. It will help pay for the upgrade by increasing aviation fuel taxes on private aircraft. It will require two inspections per year on foreign repair stations that work on US planes. And it will ban pilots from using personal electronics in the cockpit. This just needs to be reconciled with the House version and is expected to become law soon. This was discussed on Slashdot a few years ago."

Re:sounds risky

[vxice]

and what if evil munchkins land on the wing to sabotage the engine and the only one who sees it is a guy who every one thinks is crazy? what if...

Re:By replace I hope they mean augment.

[oodaloop]

How often do you fly out of castles?

Re:By replace I hope they mean augment.

[Anonymous Coward]

Leave my X-Men LARPing out of this :(

Re:Satellite vulnerability

[T Murphy]

Senator 1: "Isn't there some saying about putting all your eggs in one basket?"
Senator 2: "Hey! Good idea!"

Re:GPS confusion

[cbope]

Holy crap, flying manatees? What else have we got to prepare for in the future when this GPS thing goes into service by the FAA?

Reconciliation!?

[Obyron]

This is just a parliamentary tactic the Democrats are using to ram this unpopular legislation down the throats of ordinary, hard-working Americans. They're trying to pass this bill in the dead of night, under the old bridge down town, dressed as hobos and reeking of urine. Write your Congressman, radio your Precinct Boss, phone your local librarian. We need all hands on deck to kill this bill and show the Washington fatcats that we're not going to stand for this. I don't care if it's just to buy toilet paper, but getting a bill through our Congress should take a supermajority, the way God intended! Email Barack Hussein Obama and tell him you don't want socialist aviation!

Re:Satellite vulnerability

[bsDaemon]

sunspots are a myth perpetrated by climate holocaust deniers

Re:sounds risky

[CODiNE]

That was clearly a feral oompa-loompa, NOT a munchkin. Completely different man.

Re:Great...

[HungryHobo]

gah.
sorry about that, had 2 windows open and got the 1 mixed up.

Mod offtopic.

Re:sounds risky

[Saint Fnordius]

Now now, I don't think the EU would go that far to promote its Galileo system (provided they get it up and running, that is)

Re:Great...

[rsilvergun]

You assume people understand what their wishes are. There was a news story of a guy marching against socialized medicine in his Medicare provided scooter.

Re:Finally Congress gets down to business

[L4t3r4lu5]

So why the hell are we posting that on the internet?!

Seriously, I question the intelligence of /. readers sometimes.

Re:Finally Congress gets down to business

[Red Flayer]

No one outside hardcore rightwing Americans thinks that a Republic is an entity distinct from a democracy. Heads-up: a republic merely means that it isn't a monarchy or autocracy.

Rubbish. A Democracy is markedly different from a Republic, notably in that there is zero corruption in Democracy, but a higher penalty for having troops out in the field than in a Republic.

Just one more turn... honest this time... is that the sun coming up?

Re:Satellite vulnerability

[BancBoy]

Radar is limited by line of site.

Sight-tation needed.