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FAA Wants To Drop FSS Radio Network

Summary by AVweb
The FAA intends to decommission the radio network that allows pilots to contact Flight Services by radio. In a Notice of Intent published late last month in the Federal Register, the agency says hardly anyone uses the service anymore because they use their phones and computers. “In the mid-1980s, Flight Service received 22,000 service requests per day across this network, while today they receive fewer than 300 per day,” the agency said in the n…
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AVweb broke the news in on Monday, April 14, 2025.
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