{"id":24691,"date":"2023-01-31T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24691"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:06:53","slug":"faa-adds-fuel-saving-arrival-routes-for-11-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/faa-adds-fuel-saving-arrival-routes-for-11-airports\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Adds Fuel-Saving Arrival Routes for 11 Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Planes heading to Orlando, Kansas City, Omaha, Reno and six\nairports in South Florida can now slide down from cruising altitude to final\napproach saving millions of gallons of fuel and reducing greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are investing across the entire system to provide\npassengers with the best travel experience.&nbsp;\nThe era of choppy descents is coming to an end, providing a smoother\nlanding and saving fuel in the process,\u201d said Acting FAA Administrator Billy\nNolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/TV\/?tag=Benefits\">Optimized Profile Descents<\/a> (OPDs) safely eliminate the need for the fuel-consuming stair-step procedure. Under traditional procedures, aircraft repeatedly level off and power up the engines. This burns more fuel and requires air traffic controllers to issue instructions at each step. With optimized descents, aircraft descend from cruising altitude to the runway in a smooth, continuous path with the engines at near idle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"359\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPD-Descents.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPD-Descents.png 599w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPD-Descents-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2022, the FAA implemented new OPDs for the following\n11 airports: Boca Raton Airport, Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Kansas City\nInternational Airport, North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport, Eppley\nAirfield, Neb., Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Orlando International Airport,\nPalm Beach County Park Airport, Palm Beach International Airport, Pompano Beach\nAirpark and Reno\/Tahoe International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Traditional-Descents.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Traditional-Descents.png 600w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Traditional-Descents-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With these new descents in place, the FAA estimates that the\nindustry will save more than 90,000 gallons of fuel on average and will reduce\ngreenhouse gas emissions by 27,000 tons annually. This change is equivalent to\nfuel used by 62 Boeing 737 flights between New York and Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11 airports bring the total number of airports with the\nprocedures to 64. Since 2014, the FAA also has developed OPD procedures at\nairports in Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Fort\nLauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, Portland, Northern California,\nSouthern California, Seattle, Tampa, Washington, D.C., and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/sustainability\/aviation-climate-action-plan\">Aviation Climate Action Plan<\/a>, the United States set a goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. aviation sector by 2050. To achieve it, the FAA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Has awarded $100 million to research and scale\nfuel-saving technologies and noise reductions<\/li><li>Has awarded $327 million to electrify airport\ngate equipment and vehicles<\/li><li>Has invested $35 million for universities to\nhelp build sustainable aviation fuel supply chains<\/li><li>Has completed research and testing on reducing\nfuel burn and taxi time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more information about the FAA and its environmental\nefforts at its Sustainability Gateway Page and its list of accomplishments for\n2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planes heading to Orlando, Kansas City, Omaha, Reno and six airports in South Florida can now slide down from cruising altitude to final approach saving millions of gallons of fuel and reducing greenhouse gases. \u201cWe are investing across the entire system to provide passengers with the best travel experience.&nbsp; The era of choppy descents is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/OPD.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24695,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions\/24695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}