Some of my helpers were on the stand because of their knowledge of IT systems. None of them would have claimed any ATC knowledge and none of them has worked on the New Model.
What sort of people did you expect to visit your stand? Some of the most knowledgeable people in aviation visit Farnborough and expect to meet similarly qualified reps. Would you buy a new car from a salesman totally unfamiliar with the product? I'm afraid that such an amateurish aproach will not further your cause.
The comparisons you make are apples and oranges. There is no similarity between fly by wire and autoland systems and ATC automation. And I can remember back to when it was tried to equate Controllers and Railway Signalmen salaries as certain politicians believed the tasks to be identical. This was dumped when the difficulty of stopping an aircraft in flight after a controller's mistake was pointed out.
I spent a couple of years working on the New ODS at Maastricht UAC. The task proved so difficult for many of the big names (Plessey, Siemens, Thomson, Thalys) that it went several years and many euros over budget. in fact a number of features have still not been implemented as there is still not the required computer capacity or processing speed available.
Despite my -ve remarks above, and even though i am now retired, I would like to see this in action. Are you planning to demonstrate your ideas at the ATC show in Maastricht next time round?
BTW for some other posters. Haven't you got a private NATS forum to wash your dirty laundry in?
