Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to fly because family is too far away, no choice here. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had alternatives like super fast bullet trains?

Like in California?

Anonymous wrote:I have to fly because family is too far away, no choice here. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had alternatives like super fast bullet trains?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Forbes:
It’s unclear what the president meant by “a system from another country” as private jets landing at U.S. airports use the federal air traffic control (ATC) system unless the airport is so small that it does not have a tower.

Trump referred to “landing in New York” but all three major New York City airports and the Morristown Municipal Airport, the closest airport to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., have ATC towers.

“All aircraft work with ATC—the electronics that they use to receive navigation information can vary, but they have to meet the same criteria,” aviation safety expert and retired commercial airline pilot John Cox told Forbes in an email.

Two other aviation safety experts who did not wish to be named told Forbes they had no idea what the president was talking about.


I wondered what he could possibly even mean, so I am glad to hear the experts don't know either.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course. The DCA incident was due to factors that have been a potential for decades. Nothing new.
The incident in Toronto had nothing to do with the FAA or any US agency.

No air traffic control personnel were RIF’d. The sky is not falling, hence, I will still fly.

People are saying it was Musk’s boys editing navigation software.

Probably my mother in law. Sounds like some crap she would make up.

https://www.wired.com/story/faa-doge-elon-musk-space-x/

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Anonymous wrote:Of course. The DCA incident was due to factors that have been a potential for decades. Nothing new.
The incident in Toronto had nothing to do with the FAA or any US agency.

No air traffic control personnel were RIF’d. The sky is not falling, hence, I will still fly.

People are saying it was Musk’s boys editing navigation software.

Probably my mother in law. Sounds like some crap she would make up.