“We are working to transition the service to Phase 2, where a third-party service provider or providers would operate, monitor and maintain it.” “The PIA program is currently in Phase 1, with the FAA operating, monitoring and maintaining the service,” an FAA spokesperson told FedScoop.
The FAA would not comment on the frequency of user issues with the program in “the interest of privacy.” The agency did not provide a comment on why the transition is running behind by the time of publication. Jens Henning, the vice president of operations at the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, an aviation trade organization, also said that the FAA had originally indicated the transition would take place in 2020.Īs of now, that transition hasn’t happened. Nevertheless, the PIA program was originally anticipated to be transferred to a third-party provider or providers by the middle of 2020, according to several reports from aviation publications at the time. Others, though, see the ability to track these vehicles as a source of transparency and accountability for some of the world’s wealthiest people. The PIA program has received support from organizations that represent the users and manufacturers of private jets. Vice reported earlier this year that employees at the company did not use the system properly, which eventually enabled the viral (and subsequently banned) Twitter account which tracked the whereabouts of the billionaire’s aircraft. Notably, this is the same program that SpaceX tried to use to prevent the tracking of CEO Elon Musk’s private jet. The agency adds that PIA is “limiting the extent to which the aircraft can be quickly and easily identified by non-U.S.government entities, while ensuring there is no adverse effect on services.” “Real-time tracking of the geographic location of a specific aircraft is possible, generating privacy concerns for the aircraft operator community,” explains the FAA on its website. The system is designed so that some aircraft can fly under a temporary vehicle address that isn’t directly assigned to the owner registered in the Civil Aircraft Registry - theoretically, anonymizing the vehicle - while also remaining trackable by the FAA, according to the agency. The Federal Aviation Administration’s plans to transition to a third-party system designed to limit the public’s ability to track certain aircraft appear to be running years behind.īack in 2019, the aviation agency announced a new program called the Privacy International Civil Aviation Organization aircraft address, or PIA, program.
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