It turns out that weather radios aren't the distraction the FAA
once said they were. This week, the agency flip-flopped on its
earlier ban on weather radios in air traffic control towers, and
will allow controllers to monitor such devices for reports of
approaching severe weather after all.
Using electronic technology to ease the workload, carrier landings
are made easier for the pilot. Data link controls roll and pitch,
and the autopilot provides warning if the system becomes
uncoupled.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent
person. This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my
door when I have cooperated with everything other than the whole
solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."
Source: 31-year-old attorney Andrew Speaker,
who has been identified as the man who traveled overseas from
Atlanta, GA last month -- despite a doctor's warning that he had
tuberculosis -- and returned to North America onboard a commercial
airliner despite warnings from the CDC to remain in Italy until
doctors could determine the best course of treatment.
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