From 2023 (YouTune Edition): Bureaucrats Endeavor to Curb Bureaucracy The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched upgrades to its online database system—an historically flawed tangle of abstruse redundancies that archives, ostensibly, airspace obstructions, runway data, and other data the agency considers safety-critical, as well as non-safety critical data the likes of airport layout plan mapping. Data contained in the FAA’s online database is generated by contractors, airport authorities, and other stakeholders in the businesses of airport infrastructure and operations. Subject data is salient to the aims of the FAA’s Flight Procedures Office (FPO), which is tasked with maintaining flight procedures conducive to the safe navigation of aircraft at and around airports.