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What's the point of flying the most stealthy plane on earth if you have to register a flight plan ? I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous and be able

What's the point of flying the most stealthy plane on earth if you have to register a flight plan ? I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous and be able to "see" and avoid other planes.

ars 13y ago
> flying the most stealthy plane A U2 is not at all stealthy. You must be thinking of some other plane. > if you have to register a flight plan It's not a military operation in a foreign country, it's a routine flight in the home country. > I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous The U2 was made long before such computers existed. They do have drones now. > and be able to "see" and avoid other planes. It wasn't the plane with the problem, it was ground control. This must be a world record: A faulty assumption in every single sentence!
- jmnicolas 13y ago
  I effectively mistook the U2 and B2. For 100% autonomous flight, I wasn't thinking no pilot, but about being able to navigate without any assistance from other radars
- joezydeco 13y ago
  "It's not a military operation in a foreign country, it's a routine flight in the home country" Is it worth asking, at all, why we're flying a military reconnaissance aircraft back-and-forth over Los Angeles?
  - a3n 13y ago
    Atmospheric studies? Training in commercial environments? To see what happens? Because they can? Sekrit stuff? If there's an actual military mission for any military plane that requires it to fly over or through a commercial area, wouldn't you prefer that pilots and ground operators already know how to do that?
andreasvc 13y ago
It's not the most stealthy plane on earth, in fact it has been shot down over the Soviet Union and China in historical cases, because of being tracked by radar. Moreover it was flying over American airspace, it makes sense to register it.
- khuey 13y ago
  The second U2 was shot down by Cuba, not China.
  - andreasvc 13y ago
    There were also five U-2 planes shot down over China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#Taiwan_.28Republic_of_China.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#Taiwan_.28Republic...
    - khuey 12y ago
      Interesting. I wasn't aware that the ROC ever operated U-2s.
venomsnake 13y ago
A good idea when you consider that it could be mistaken for some bad guys plane, shot down and probably cause WWIII (not that long shot - the US and USSR were at a few times very close to annihilation due to glitches in their own software)
prof_hobart 13y ago
If you don't register military flights on civil ATC systems, you run the risk of this -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706

What's the point of flying the most stealthy plane on earth if you have to register a flight plan ? I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous and be able to "see" and avoid other planes.

ars 13y ago

> flying the most stealthy plane A U2 is not at all stealthy. You must be thinking of some other plane. > if you have to register a flight plan It's not a military operation in a foreign country, it's a routine flight in the home country. > I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous The U2 was made long before such computers existed. They do have drones now. > and be able to "see" and avoid other planes. It wasn't the plane with the problem, it was ground control. This must be a world record: A faulty assumption in every single sentence!

jmnicolas 13y ago
I effectively mistook the U2 and B2. For 100% autonomous flight, I wasn't thinking no pilot, but about being able to navigate without any assistance from other radars
joezydeco 13y ago
"It's not a military operation in a foreign country, it's a routine flight in the home country" Is it worth asking, at all, why we're flying a military reconnaissance aircraft back-and-forth over Los Angeles?
- a3n 13y ago
  Atmospheric studies? Training in commercial environments? To see what happens? Because they can? Sekrit stuff? If there's an actual military mission for any military plane that requires it to fly over or through a commercial area, wouldn't you prefer that pilots and ground operators already know how to do that?

andreasvc 13y ago

It's not the most stealthy plane on earth, in fact it has been shot down over the Soviet Union and China in historical cases, because of being tracked by radar. Moreover it was flying over American airspace, it makes sense to register it.

khuey 13y ago
The second U2 was shot down by Cuba, not China.
- andreasvc 13y ago
  There were also five U-2 planes shot down over China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#Taiwan_.28Republic_of_China.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#Taiwan_.28Republic...
  - khuey 12y ago
    Interesting. I wasn't aware that the ROC ever operated U-2s.

venomsnake 13y ago

A good idea when you consider that it could be mistaken for some bad guys plane, shot down and probably cause WWIII (not that long shot - the US and USSR were at a few times very close to annihilation due to glitches in their own software)

prof_hobart 13y ago

If you don't register military flights on civil ATC systems, you run the risk of this -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706