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Old 8th Sep 2006, 20:46
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IO540
 
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Sorry to sound like I am making a cheap point here Flower but

The men and woman who provide FIS on London Info are not ATCOs but FISOs hence why they cannot use a radar screen

is just like saying that my grandfather was a coalminer, my father was a coalminer, I am a coalminer and YOU MY SON are jolly damn well going down that mine too. My family's HONOUR depends on this tradition.

I bet you that every FISO would give an arm and a leg for a screen. As would most airfield "radio operators". The data is all digital so the cost of yet another feed is not a lot more than a 100 quid LCD screen. The data could be fed all over the place over the internet; HTTPS, (with GPRS/3G fallback).
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