How Much Should Air Traffic Controllers Trust New Flight Management Systems?

Understanding how people interact within complex systems

With airfares at their lowest point in seven years and airlines adding capacity, this year’s holiday air travel is slated to be 2.5 percent busier than last year. The system we use to coordinate all those flights, however, is decades old, and mostly depends on highly trained air traffic controllers, who keep track of where all the planes are, where they’re heading, how fast they’re going, and at what altitude.

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Training is important, but until the system gets setup which will cost $$$$, it won't make a whole lot of difference. Many government programs also become obsolete before implementation. We need to put a priority on some and less on others, pay attention to wasteful spending (using the Sneator form Oklahoma's waste report as a guidline to start). I don't have all of the information needed to make that decision, nor am I an a position to influence it either.

In all cases we need to remember what was said by a French Philosopher back in the 1800's: Everyone wishes to live at the expense of the state, forgetting that the state lives at the expense of everyone. Paraphrase of Frederic Bastiat's quote. Someone painted it ona wall in Downtown Denver back in the early 1980's, ihave quoted and requoted it many times since then.

Thanks for highlighting the subject.