This presentation simply sheds light on how easy it is to manipulate various aspects of the FAA's scattered (and often outsourced) information systems. There ar

This presentation simply sheds light on how easy it is to manipulate various aspects of the FAA's scattered (and often outsourced) information systems. There are over a hundred private companies that automate flight planning for pilots. Gaining clearance from ATC on a filed flight plan is an entirely different and, most importantly, human procedure. It is exponentially easier to trespass at a nuclear power facility or steal a fuel transport vehicle than it is to change someone's flight plan which has already been filed.