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Forum: ATC Issues
24th Aug 2010, 22:01
Replies: 14
Views: 2,617
Posted By Token Sane Person

Distributions for arrival times

UAC48, it sounds like you are trying to write a traffic generator to produce traffic at a specified rate.

In theory I believe the "right thing" is an exponential distribution for the arrival...
Forum: ATC Issues
8th Apr 2010, 18:16
Replies: 38
Views: 7,369
Posted By Token Sane Person

Avoiding callsign confusion

The problem with numerical-only callsigns is that it is difficult to find sets of callsigns that don't create confusion somewhere on the route. Carriers try to reduce this manually, but with limited...
Forum: ATC Issues
30th Mar 2010, 16:13
Replies: 38
Views: 7,369
Posted By Token Sane Person

Callsign confusion

Anyone in the UK with an interest in this subject should find out about NATS callsign confusion program.
Forum: ATC Issues
28th Mar 2010, 20:01
Replies: 22
Views: 6,794
Posted By Token Sane Person

Go for the degree

Zoom,

It sounds like you intend to go for management, whatever your career. I heartily approve. ATCOs (I'm not one) have a healthy disrespect for anyone without a validation, probably because of...
Forum: ATC Issues
7th Oct 2008, 18:17
Replies: 15
Views: 2,382
Posted By Token Sane Person

Overpaid?

Does that mean ATCOs are paid too much then, if the money is attracting the wrong sort of trainee? :confused:
Forum: ATC Issues
2nd Oct 2008, 19:05
Replies: 38
Views: 10,096
Posted By Token Sane Person

Not so simple.

We still have them. But if some odd bit of data tickles a bug in the primary, then it will tickle exactly the same bug in the secondary.

Someone suggested having two separately developed ATM...
Forum: ATC Issues
5th Sep 2008, 20:06
Replies: 3
Views: 1,586
Posted By Token Sane Person

Depends on what you are doing

If you are just hooking up an ADS-B receiver to your PC then its like using an air-band radio: technically illegal, but the authorities neither know nor care. However it means that the openATC...
Forum: ATC Issues
4th Sep 2008, 19:06
Replies: 3
Views: 1,586
Posted By Token Sane Person

Probably not legal

From the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006, 46.1.a



That would certainly seem to apply to ADS-B.

Incidentally, the "whether sent by means of wireless telegraphy or not" bit is interesting: it...
Forum: ATC Issues
7th Aug 2008, 11:19
Replies: 24
Views: 4,078
Posted By Token Sane Person

VCCS?

I've heard that the VCCS system has had problems with voice quality, but these should have been fixed by a recent update. I suggest that any pilots having problems hearing either tell the controller...
Forum: ATC Issues
29th Jul 2008, 19:38
Replies: 45
Views: 10,099
Posted By Token Sane Person

Uberlingen

JetSet Willy: see Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlines_Flight_2937). Note how TCAS was a contributing factor in the accident.

One of the ATCOs...
Forum: ATC Issues
28th Jul 2008, 18:33
Replies: 6
Views: 1,838
Posted By Token Sane Person

Engineers perspective

Reading between the lines of the press reports, it sounds like the problem was an *intermittent* failure in the network card. A bad card can bring down an entire LAN, and exactly that kind of...
Forum: ATC Issues
19th Mar 2008, 20:02
Replies: 12
Views: 1,932
Posted By Token Sane Person

I guess NATS would probably like to get rid of...

I guess NATS would probably like to get rid of Primary Radar as it does cost, in the same way as I'd like to stop buying petrol. Yes I could, but I'm going to have to figure out an alternative...
Forum: ATC Issues
19th Mar 2008, 19:00
Replies: 64
Views: 7,112
Posted By Token Sane Person

ID cards will never prove identity.

How do you apply for an ID card? "Bonjour. Je suis Monsuir Jo Bloggs. J'arrive en Englais. Je voudrais un carte d' ID. Ici mon Passport Francais." Is a French (or Italian or Polish or Romanian)...
Forum: ATC Issues
12th Feb 2008, 20:18
Replies: 5
Views: 2,145
Posted By Token Sane Person

Lightbulb History of airspace ownership in US

There is actually an interesting bit of legal history behind this question in the US (and quite possibly in the UK as well, but I don't know it). Originally property rights extended from the...
Forum: ATC Issues
16th Feb 2007, 18:20
Replies: 16
Views: 2,419
Posted By Token Sane Person

Zero tolerance

Quoth anotherthing:

Would you prefer to work for an organisation where SSE1s are routinely tolerated, as in "hey, the controller was only human, people make mistakes sometimes, and the...
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