Tower Situational Awareness Display …….effectively a radar that is not certified as such as the data throughput is not guaranteed to arrive on the screen within the required time frame to be used as radar.
We can use it for very little, it is extremely useful for monitoring separation and sequencing already set up procedurally and for ensuring some of our less experienced GA cousins are where they say they are.
In reality, the data is proving very reliable, it could before long be used more effectively, although ‘Radar ratings’ and the commensurate implications for the shareholder (guess who) would be financially unpalatable me thinks........
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