On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Joe Leikhim <jleik...@leikhim.com> wrote:
> In retrospect it is kind of crazy that fleet owners will put tracking > devices on $100K semi trucks and cranes yet $100 million aircraft have to > rely upon 60 year old technology (Transponders) and ACARS to keep track of > them. I don't question the utility of TCAS and Transponders, it is just the > issue of not tracking such a valuable asset that is kind of crazy. Can you > imagine how much an aircraft like that is worth in spare parts alone? -on > the world market. If I were an insurer I would be asking questions of the > industry. First, just because you imagine there is a problem does not mean that there is a problem. It is possible to determine the position of every airplane but they just don't go missing all that often, as this recent event illustrates. If this were a common problem, we wouldn't be talking about it. ;-) But the solution already exists and is being deployed - ADS-B. By 2020 each aircraft will be beaconing its ID, position, and velocity vector on 978MHz and/or 1090MHz. The solution for long over-water tracking is either to receive and relay such information, or put up some LEO birds to wiretap and forward the broadcasts. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 br...@lloyd.com +1.916.877.5067 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
