FAA will withhold urgent ATC messages from data link

In the switch to aeronautical data link communications, "there will never be an urgent ATC message sent over data link," FAA assured industry officials last week. Air traffic controllers still will deliver climb and descent messages in the initial stages of controller-pilot data link communications...

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