Thanks for that Mr 'Ozbus'......We were actually working towards something like that - with a 'thing' called 'FISADS' - I've forgotten just what the acronym stood for - but it was an 'automated' system of displaying all traffic on a screen, based on aircraft flight planned times between points and an actual DEP time.
It was probably morphed/developed into TAAAAATS..??
Imagine what it could have become with say, ADSB... - a real LIVE tfc info and advice service..!! (Cant' say with a RADAR feed for those OCTA acft...NO NO...Naughty thoughts....)
However, after ALL of those $$'s - rumoured to have been spent by the 'MILLIONS'....we have what the 'idealists/evangelists' ALMOST wanted.
AND - THEY haven't got there yet..!!
I've indicated before that we were told the Canadians liked our AFIZ so much that they imported the idea for some of their less busy 'remote' areas, closed the ATC Tower facility and installed a 'comparable' FS service...
T'was the level of service required and at a 'cheeaper' rate utilising less facilities etc .....
Well, as Mr Peuce has predicted...we' re nearly there....AGIN!!
Rotsa Ruck...Boys and Gals..
