Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is here in the Great Land, touring air-traffic control facilities. Alaska, we should note, is all about aviation; every little village has an airstrip, and our summers are notable for the sound of bush planes flying overhead, taking sportsmen out to remote areas to fish and hunt, taking people on sightseeing tours, delivering light cargo to remote places, and so forth. Aviation built Alaska, and now we're learning that some of Alaska's air-traffic control infrastructure is badly outdated.
Now, to be fair, in the photo with the aluminum foil, it looks like it's being used for shielding those cables, to prevent a cross-connection rather than to make a connection. But that's not any better. I'm not an expert on air traffic control systems, but this looks a lot like '70s technology to me, and no matter what that aluminum foil is being used for, it wouldn't be necessary in a modern system in good working order.
It's hard to tell what the Biden administration was doing with regards to the nation's air traffic control system, but the evidence at hand sure makes it look like the answer is "nothing much." Fortunately, "Pothole Pete" Buttigieg isn't in charge of these systems anymore, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy seems to have a much tighter grasp on what the job is.
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The Kenai Flight Service Station handles air traffic for much of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as providing aviators with weather information, including wind and temperature aloft information, managing flight plans, all in an area with large expanses of country accessible only by air, from the Chugach Mountains just south of Anchorage to the end of the Homer Spit. It's a big, largely wild area, and there's no reason for the primary air-traffic hub to be relying on outdated equipment.
Air traffic control and its associated infrastructure are properly a function of the federal government. It's a national system, managing air traffic between all of the United States' states and possessions, in addition to handling traffic heading to and arriving from other nations. If there's one federal system that should be working properly, it's this one.
Alaska is all about aviation. Civil and commercial aviation are the threads that bind the Great Land together. The Biden administration was tossing money at horse squeeze like EV charging stations and pushing "net-zero" carbon emissions goals for the nation's airports, while our air-traffic infrastructure was aging and wearing out. That's clearly changing now; Alaska and the United States air-traffic control systems should be upgraded, modernized, and improved, making our skies safer for passengers and traffic.
And, yeah, no more aluminum foil in our air-traffic control systems. Let's reserve that for its more proper uses, like wrapping potatoes to be baked in a campfire while on a fishing excursion down the Kenai, Kasilof, or Russian rivers.
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