{"id":373514,"date":"2026-02-21T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cutting-risks-delays-why-reagan-national-replaced-1950s-system\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:03:26","slug":"cutting-risks-and-delays-why-reagan-national-just-replaced-this-1950s-era-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373514","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Risks And Delays: Why Reagan National Just Replaced This 1950s-Era System"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was at Reagan National Airport this week to welcome a major operational transition at the airport’s air traffic control<\/a><\/span> tower. DCA’s tower has officially switched over from paper flight strips to an electronic system as part of the FAA\u2019s Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) program, and is one of just 15 US airports equipped with the new technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The airport’s air traffic control tower has long relied on this outdated system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,396,475,2957,420,1074,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-atc","category-faa","category-ronald-reagan-washington-national-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t