Digital airports
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Digital airports
The Times has an article today reference work being underway to replace control towers with a digital operation using cameras and sensors near the landing strips.
The mind boggles !
The mind boggles !
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There are already quite a surprising number of fields equipped like this, many big ones in test phase. I even came across similar on very small airfields in Europe - one guy with a handheld radio doing INFO from his home and following the fields traffic by webcam. That one even tried to sell this to me as a safety feature: "if a plane crashes and all of the field and the tower is burning I can still call rescue when doing it from home" ...