There's a reason why Seinfeld jokes about "final approach" are so dated. It's because we've made huge gains in ATC over the past two decades
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It will cost the airlines money. Which will mean businesses and consumers spend more money and fly less. This is bad for business.
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The mathematics behind air traffic control are some of the most interesting I've ever encountered. This is in the public benefit.
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If you ever want to dive into the intersection of ops engineering, data science, and operations research, ATC is a deep rabbit hole. FIN.
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One last thing. Here you can read about continuous descent tech from NASA: https://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/research/tactical/eda.shtml …
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Much of this technology is developed by private industry with support from NASA and the FAA. Private industry is benefitting already.
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From research firms to the companies building the technology and software, this is an example of working government-corporate relations.
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While there is room for improvement, there is no need to sabotage the progress being made here. It's nonsensical.
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Worked on ATC bids in late 80s. To really understand it, you had to find the right questions to ask an old guy; FAA reality != RFP reqt's.
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True of gov't contracting still today. Spent 8 years in a SBIR shop.
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I think there is a significant difference, in that there was basically no national grid pre-privatization.
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Yeah, for sure. But tech development isn't slowing down and differentiated adoption needs to be regulated somehow.
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With Texas as a semi-separate, bridged entity in the infrastructure?
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DFW is basically 2/3 the way there
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I haven't been and plan to avoid it, given the stories I've heard. AUS has served me well enough, so far.
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