Adrian is Auckland bureau chief for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Adrian was previously based in Aviation Week’s Washington office for nine years, writing for a range of the group’s publications and covering many aspects of the commercial aviation industry. He has won Australasian and international awards for his aviation writing.
Prior to joining Aviation Week in 2002, Adrian covered aviation industry and policy issues for two other publishing companies in Washington. He has also worked for newspapers in Texas and New Zealand, covering a wide range of topics. Adrian graduated from Auckland University with a degree in history and English in 1992.
FAA says it is seeing savings of up to four minutes per flight by using a “metering” technique for arrivals at Newark airport. Acting Administrator Robert Sturgell says FAA will begin metering arrivals at LaGuardia in the middle of January and New York Kennedy in April. Metering relies on the Traffic Management Advisor system that is being introduced at FAA’s en route centers.
FAA has named John Hickey to take over as deputy associate administrator for aviation safety, one of three senior appointments FAA announced to employees last week. Hickey is currently director of the Aircraft Certification Service, a position he has held for more than seven years. He takes over Peggy Gilligan’s job, as Gilligan has been appointed to head the aviation safety organization (DAILY, Oct. 27). KC Yanamura will be promoted to director of the Office of Accident Investigation. She was previously deputy regional administrator for the Northwest Mountain region.
Sensis Corp. won an important FAA contract competition to provide runway status lights, regarded as an important technology in the effort to reduce runway incursions.
