Originally Posted by
zonoma
parishiltons, that is incorrect, nearly every aircraft carries it, the pilots are just not trained in its use so therefore not permitted to use it. In the UK Easyjet are by far the major "log on" outfit, however we are seeing more and more of the charter outfits now logging on too, I'd say here the narrow bodies outweigh the log ons by 2-1, but that could just be my sectors.
I do take your point. But surely the difference is semantic. In a busy en route surveillance sector more comms can happen by voice in a given timeframe than by CPDLC. Sure the latter has a place (noting that Eurocontrol authorises it only for non time critical communications), but we are a long way from it supplanting direct voice comms.