Originally Posted by
JimL
Work has been done over a projected period on something which is not quite as easy to provide as first imagined.
Jim
Not really the same thing though Jim. Or at least, it has fallen victim to being run by ideologists, vs designers who understand that everything (that works in practice) is a compromise. The need to ward of helicopters from long range due to a gas leak etc is a different requirement from a device to stop wrong deck landings.
What is in fact required is, for example, a means of turning the otherwise excellent CAA-promoted green deck circle lighting, to red until such time as the HLO gives deck clearance.
By trying to make this project all things to all people - always an impossible task and the death knell of any project - and looking for that elusive perfect solution, the net result is a stalling of the project and no actual implementation of a reasonably effective solution.