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Automating just the error prone radio calls would be a massive start. Those could be sent as short text messages that appear on a screen in the cockpit, for th
by nandomrumber 1y ago
Automating just the error prone radio calls would be a massive start.
Those could be sent as short text messages that appear on a screen in the cockpit, for the pilots to acknowledge receipt of with a limit set of responses, and would give ATC a lot more time to focus on their other duties.
- cullenking 1y agoSo like texting and driving, but in the air? Flying is hard, I don’t think an automated text based system would be safer than what we have now.
- nandomrumber 1y agoTry responding to the strongest possible interpretation of what someone says. Anyway, this wasn’t my idea, it came from one of the handful of active / recently retired commercial pilots on YouTube.
- nradov 1y agoThis is already being done at many major airports through the FAA Data Comm program. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/data-communications-data-comm-0 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/data-communications-data-comm-0
- nandomrumber 1y agoThanks for linking that, I wasn’t aware it was that far in to development / production.
- cjrp 1y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_link_communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_...
- nandomrumber 1y agoThanks, appreciate a good rabbit hole.
- cjrp 11mo agoJust to add to it, you can see a feed of some messages sent between pilots and their operations team: https://acarsdrama.com https://acarsdrama.com
- rainsford 1y agoAutomating various functions seems like a good idea. But it's not going to remove the humans from the loop in the event of a future government shutdown, which is what the original suggestion seemed to be.