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what I don't understand is: if the plane could make contact with the satellite, why aren't there automated systems in place to send location info through that c
by return_to_monke 4y ago
what I don't understand is: if the plane could make contact with the satellite, why aren't there automated systems in place to send location info through that channel? can someone explain?
- zokier 4y agoFrom tfa > In the interest of knowing where every plane is at all times, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) began requiring that all airliners manufactured after the 1st of January 2021 include autonomous tracking devices that broadcast their location once per minute.
- nly 4y agoIt's bat shit insane that we're 50 years in to the industry and ~20-25 years in to GPS and this is still only happening in 2021.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoGPS is a one-way system though, using sattelite signals to triangulate your own position; there's no uplink / reverse contact required, and it's up to the GPS receiver to then send the location on through a ground station.
- hugh-avherald 4y agoIt won't save lives and wouldn't have saved lives. It's only to improve the efficiency of recovery operations.
- epups 4y agoIt could save future lives to know what happened, though.
- lordalch 4y agoThere are several redundant tracking systems on an airliner, but the pilot deliberately turned them off. That hadn't been an issue before.
- return_to_monke 4y agosorry, missed that.