Free Flight or Free-for-All?
Since 1994, FAA officials and the aviation community, under the leadership of the RTCA, have collaborated to implement free flight. The biggest hurdle at the outset was to define just what ``free flight'' should mean. Definitions ranged from the ultraistic (``It is my God-given right to fly anywhere...
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