Are you brave enough to fly?

[Anonymous]

This is what the president plans for air traffic control:

We're all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land. It doesn't work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that's all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all of the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would've gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.
And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete.' And we can't have that.

[Anonymous]

"When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete.'"

So Trump is saying that we have an ATC system for the public and another one for the wealthy. And Musk/Trump are going to make the one for the wealthy available for all?

Yeah. Right.

[Anonymous]

He's not wrong about this - but it will be expensive, Congress will have to agree to this (and they cannot agree to anything), and Musk and his DOGE-kids are not the right ones to do it.

So, we'll see.

[Anonymous]

NextGen has been contemplated by the FAA for a very long time (decades maybe?) but the funding from Congress isn’t there. They’ve been trying to install it piecemeal.

One of the costs of a dysfunctional Congress.

[Anonymous]

I’m brave, not stupid.

Pilot in the family and we will not be doing any flying any time soon.

Elon builds dangerous cars, and rockets that unintentionally explode. Not a reason in the world to trust he’s good at anything else. He just thinks he’s a genius.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m brave, not stupid.

Pilot in the family and we will not be doing any flying any time soon.

Elon builds dangerous cars, and rockets that unintentionally explode. Not a reason in the world to trust he’s good at anything else. He just thinks he’s a genius.

Elon is just like the guy who sent the submersible deep into the ocean only for it to explode. They are insane and cruel.

[Anonymous]

Nope. No trips planned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's not wrong about this - but it will be expensive, Congress will have to agree to this (and they cannot agree to anything), and Musk and his DOGE-kids are not the right ones to do it.

So, we'll see.

Oh okay. Some rando agrees with Trump with a clearly unintelligible response by Trump. So now billions need to be used to “fix” it. Yesterday the problem was DEI hires working as ATC. Have you fix that problem yet? Are there still DEI hires directing planes?
Tomorrow it will be something to do with illegals.
The next it will be something else.

[Anonymous]

LOL, no one commenting on his usual demented word salad. He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, but he's such an inarticulate dumb** in the early stages of dementia.

Most truly intelligent people know when to shut up when they don't know what they're talking about. He could have just said: "We are looking into ways to improve our air traffic control system and will be talking to our colleagues in congress to come up with a bill to address the issue."

[Anonymous]

Elon isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. He’s bought and borrowed his success. Stupid people falling for it.

[Anonymous]

What is the expected implementation?

[Anonymous]

Now that we can get rid of the unqualified girl pilots, flying is safer than ever.

[Anonymous]

Of course I feel safe to fly, Trump even said so in that press conference!!

...right after he said our system sucks and the staff are all morons

[Anonymous]

Having an ATC syspem based on computers with no human oversight or intervention is an absolute dystpian nightmare idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having an ATC syspem based on computers with no human oversight or intervention is an absolute dystpian nightmare idea.

Especially the part about it being controlled by one company. Wtf? Can you imagine if the one person controlling the one company in charge of ATC was unelected billionaire and sociopath Elon Musk?