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The question is, how will ATC know? I'm not that familiar with their systems, but maybe they rely on them to get critical information?
by dx034 4y ago
The question is, how will ATC know? I'm not that familiar with their systems, but maybe they rely on them to get critical information?
- ceejayoz 4y agoATC will be fine to get everyone on the ground safely. There are procedures for everything including ATC itself being down.
- dx034 4y agoI never doubted that. The question is if they could've worked without a ground stop by having ATC give them all info.
- ceejayoz 4y agoNo. ATC gets busy enough as is, each plane needs NOTAMs covering their entire route, and if the system is down ATC isn’t getting them either anyways.
- sokoloff 4y agoIf I print the NOTAMs for a 600nm flight, they're going to typically go 4+ pages of NOTAMs that are fairly specific to my flight (just for departure, along route, and destination airports) and 15+ pages if I print all available NOTAMs in a fairly small font.
- p_l 4y agoATC can get them back down, but no new flights should start.