Yesterday's "navigation fixes" gave way to today's "waypoints," all of which helped define our "course." In the ATC system of the future -- NGATS -- we will be filing for "trajectories."

"We're supportive of deploying automation improvements in the ATC system, but it's more than that: you have to provide compatible capability on the aircraft to interact with the equipment on the ground and with the controller," Steve Brown, the NBAA's senior vice president of operations, said in answer to B&CA's query on the business aviation organization's position on automation.

"We are much further ahead than we were a year or two ago," NBAA's Doug Carr asserts, concerning the state of business aviation security, while TSA's Rob Rottman places overall general aviation security "light years ahead," compared to pre-9/11/01.