ROAD MAP LEADS FAA TO `FREE FLIGHT'

The RTCA has laid out a road map for the FAA Administrator to move the U.S. air traffic control by 2010 to ``free flight''--the radically new scheme that would permit pilots to select their own flight paths in real-time, with controllers intervening only to prevent problems. In a report last week...

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