Excellent news could also be coming for Elon Musk and different uberwealthy of us with non-public jets. The FAA reauthorization invoice, which was lately handed by the Home, could quickly block the general public from studying concerning the flights individuals tackle non-public jets, in response to Axios. Whereas it could be excellent news within the eyes of the wealthy, it’s unhealthy information for everybody else.
The Tesla, SpaceX and X (ugh) CEO has stated previously that folks having entry to their flight knowledge can pose a safety danger, however Axios asserts that the knowledge has confirmed to be very helpful for journalists and different researchers. This type of monitoring has all the time been a part of public report, however till on-line flight trackers began taking off (I’m so sorry), it was type of a ache within the ass for most individuals to study who owned non-public planes and the place they had been going.
The outlet experiences {that a} provision deep contained in the five-year FAA reauthorization invoice would require the company to ascertain a course of that will let jet homeowners request to maintain their planes’ registration numbers and different info non-public. That’s lame as hell. The invoice reportedly handed the Home by a 351-69 (good) vote in July, and now it have to be reconciled with the Senate earlier than President Biden can signal it.
The outlet experiences that the FAA already has quite a few choices for non-public homeowners who don’t need these goddamn nosey poor individuals seeing what they’re as much as. Considered one of them is utilizing LLCs and different company possession buildings to defend their identities.
It’s possible you’ll keep in mind final 12 months when Musk threatened to sue a Twitter person for creating an account that tracked his non-public jet’s actions. That by no means actually occurred. Nonetheless, as soon as Musk bought possession of Twitter, he completely suspended the account, as a result of he isn’t a petty particular person in any respect.
It isn’t all on Musk, although. Loads of extremely rich individuals have their flight info blocked like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner. The FAA has additionally granted over 300 non permanent plane reservation numbers. They permit candidates to fly anonymously by way of a personal plane deal with program.
