Originally Posted by
aterpster
Looks good in Aviation Leak (Week). As you suggest, not nearly ready for prime time.
We (as in the U.S.) haven't really solved the problem of a 737 landing atop a commuter carrier at LAX, or, for that matter, assuring the runway is clear at an LAX when I am making a CAT III autoland in RVR 600 conditions.
On the contrary, the problem has been solved in different ways several times. I have worked with one that was a distributed radar systems that could show and track individual pedestrians and the display was set up like a full airport simulator allowing the ground controller to zoom a point of presence anywhere on the airport and aircraft and vehicles were shown as 3D models of the aircraft/vehicle being picked up and tracked by the radar.
But as it would never happen that an aircraft could land on an occupied runway or taxiway
- it wasn't seen as something necessary
. Out of some of that research came Aerobahn by SAAB/SENSIS
Aerobahn Now Available for iPad and Android Tablets