Ok, I read the claim, looked at the dates and have to say this...WTF? When I was in college I worked on a system for a government affiliated agency doing resea

Ok, I read the claim, looked at the dates and have to say this...WTF? When I was in college I worked on a system for a government affiliated agency doing research into flight simulators and other aviation related software. The exact project I worked on did this patents claim as base functionality before we did the hard work. This was 1996. That technology had been around for, oh, probably 4 years at this point. I'm 100% sure that this software was not productized to be seen by the patent office (nor was a patent filed by this agency...), but this technology has existed in one form or another since the invention of networked computing and having computable aviation data.