Spirit of Eastern Michigan Aviation

For my final blog in this Aviation Senior Seminar course, I want to expand on my past blog that was all for the push of commercial space travel, and really give out how beneficial it could be to mankind. According to Forbes, the main objective of privatizing commercial space travel isn’t to just hand over space travel to the private sector, but expand upon the utilization of travel by space by finding different companies and opportunities where a private sector or sectors could benefit from ( www.forbes.com , Who’s Winning In the Commercial Space Race?). The first main con that comes from this is that it allows smaller private companies to provide a business for the government in a way both can benefit from. For example, NASA really hasn’t launched its own rocket in years, along with shutting down its shuttle program back in 2011 due to government funding.  This was the first major break in United States history allowing a privatized company to get the opportunity to compete in th

Over the years, the airspace above has been getting more sophisticated, yet safer. Currently, our system is divided into 21 sections covering 5,282,000 square miles of Domestic U.S. Airspace and 24,101,568 square miles of U.S. Oceanic Airspace. Major components of this include the traffic flow management system; Time based flow management, and en route automation modernization (FAA, 2018). The system implemented now is radar based and uses a transponder between ATC and other aircrafts to display location and altitude with a short delay in the relay. NextGen is a FAA led modernization of our air transportation system to increase the safety, efficiency, capacity, and resiliency (FAA, 2018). NextGen is satellite based and will allow pilots, controllers, and operators to gain better information that help the aircraft get from point A to B faster, while consuming less fuel, and will be more efficient. NextGen is on target to have all components in place by 2025. The biggest reason why