Posted on 08/09/2007 3:34:00 AM PDT by Man50D
The U.S. has built nine navigation systems for Mexico and Canada under the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in an apparent first step toward establishing the satellite infrastructure needed to create a North American air traffic control system.
The defining vision for North American air traffic control was articulated by then-Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta in a Sept. 27, 2004, statement announcing, "We must make flying throughout North America as seamless as possible if we are to truly reap the rewards of the expanding global economy."
The "2006 Report to Leaders" posted on the SPP website proclaimed, "In order to increase navigational accuracy across the region, five Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) stations were installed in Canada and Mexico in 2005."
WAAS is a space-based augmentation system that provides precision navigation information to aircraft equipped with Global Positioning Satellite/WAAS receivers through all phases of flight.
Working through the North American Aviation Trilateral, the U.S. has built for Mexico WAAS stations at five locations: Mexico City, San Jose del Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, Merida and Tapachula.
Additionally, the U.S., working through NATT, has built four Canadian WAAS stations, at Iqaluit, Gander, Winnipeg and Goose Bay.
WND also has learned discussions are underway to create a North American Air Traffic Control System, complete with Federal Aviation Administration issuance of WAAS certifications for Canadian and Mexican airspace. According to a government official who specializes in satellite technology applied to air traffic control systems, it would involve Canadian and Mexican foreign nationals not only hosting but operating and maintaining U.S. air navigation equipment as part of a continental Global Navigation Satellite System.
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maybe air traffic controllers will be outsourced to some illegal aliens?
Touche! I was under the impression that this thread was as much about SSP (NAU), as it was about air safety.
Ping.
Is there perhaps something more important then the sovereignty of the United States. It is a bit of a shame when consverstions have to degenrate to such a mundane subject matter.
Can you answer the question?
The “how many increments?” question?
Incrementalism.. First you have a large number of dual citizens to Mexico and America. Then make it easier for Mexicans to get temporary jobs in America. Then easier to get full time jobs, and ‘path to citizenship’. Make travelling easier, and it will increase as they visit relatives who are american citizens working in america, and travel the other way. Hundreds of thousands of Americans work in Mexico too I believe.
Then gradually loosen and loosen the work visa rules with Mexico so its very easy to work in both countries. When the final merging is done, its not that big of a jump, as the countries will mainly be integrated. Harmonizing regulations is another aspect, and ultimately harmonizing regulatory authority. Like this is doing with airlines. Which we needed to update our airline traffic system anyway.
Yes.
The way things stand right now, there may not be many more increments required. Time alone, may suffice, with what/who we have in place. Given time, our culture can simply be voted out of existence.
The very boldness of the moves being made, is quite alarming, in itself. It is difficult to say what moves will be made next. The 2008 election will have a lot to say about how things shake-out.
As national sovereignty shrinks and shrinks and then fades away into a memory.
And vice-a-versa
More important? Probably not, if one includes national defense. So let's wait until someone explains how making air travel safer and more efficient implicates the two.
I’m just sayin’, that’s the argument that was being made (with a Chinese twist added for “interest”).
We will have to learn a French/Spanish patois to communicate with each other.
Parle vous espanol?
I hope the Mexican planes will be ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance broadcast) compliant. As below, so above and I worry about how safe their trucks are.
Muy pocito. MUY POCITO!!
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