Avionics
NextGen Debate Takes Center Stage at RAA Convention
RAA vice president Scott Foose engages with a pilot following a panel discussion on the coming shortage of qualified cockpit crew. (Photo: Gregory Polek)
RAA vice president Scott Foose engages with a pilot following a panel discussion on the coming shortage of qualified cockpit crew. (Photo: Gregory Polek)

As the Regional Airline Association gathered its membership in Montreal from May 6 to 9 for its first-ever annual convention held outside the U.S., few among the RAA braintrust could set aside thoughts of events back home in Washington, D.C. In fact, what many consider the FAA’s bungled effort to advance the Next Generation Air Traffic Control system, or NextGen, took top billing among the various panel discussions held at the Palais des Congres de Montreal, where the RAA saw some 1,400 visitors pass through the turnstiles.