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Old 9th Sep 2013, 02:05
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Long past "Time for change".

I fully concur... but that is a job for all of us, ...who are out there dealing with the uncertainties and threats of real world global aviation every day.

We have unnecessarily lost far too many colleague crew members who would likely be here today, had we just had the courage to not let obsolete and counter-productive authority and ANSP policies and criteria stand beyond their useful lives.

We need tools like RNP and GLS, and be able to beneficially use our FMSs, and VNAVs, and data links, and sensible ADS (not some authority's vastly over-specified NIC, NAC, and NUC WAAS based ADS) right now, not two decades from now.

Many of the systems we need to more safely fly are already in production, if not even already installed in lots of aircraft... we just need to be able to use them as they were intended, and not with or be held back by ridiculous obsolete 1930's legacy procedures like NPAs, or obsolete criteria such as the still conceptually flawed TERPS or PANS-Ops (which as the original authors fully intended, was just a simplification for convenience, and DOES NOT now, nor ever was intended to comprehensively deal with rare normal or non-normal ops, as [real] RNP now does).
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