Quite frankly I think the idea complete bollocks and a total waste of cash. If I get this right, some Euroneddy is going to piss away €30M of our money to plan to build an overide to the controls of my aircraft? So I can't turn it off? And what controls will they be able to use? So where will they crash us or will there be a nice soft landing somewhere? And you are going to tell me that it won't go wrong? I'll never find that, by accident, ATC have taken control of my aircraft? Well, put the w
ers who are planning this, together with a goodly proportion of MEPs and all the Commissioners in a Airbus 380 and let's test it on them. After all, it can't possibly fail, can it?
And of course, nobody would ever enter the ATC centre and take over ALL of the aircraft in range, would they?
Crackpots who come up with ideas like this should be operated on to stop them breeding.
PM