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Old 17th Oct 2006, 21:16
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TheOddOne
 
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Nearly 30 years on...

...and at LGW, we're STILL having to employ someone, 24 hrs a day, to just listen to ATC and input times. In this case, we're just left with pushback times (and ground moves), but no-one has yet reliably automated this process, despite several attempts.

You try sitting for hours listening to GMC, picking out data from perhaps one transmission in 20, then accurately noting it. Requires a lot of concentration and gets mind-numbingly boring after a while.

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