Posted on 09/28/2016 1:18:57 PM PDT by sparklite2
Air traffic controllers and pilots are switching to text messages for faster plane takeoffs, saving billions
With the new system, called Data Comm, a controller can type a few instructions into a computer, tap a key and send the message directly to the flight management computers in each plane that needs the information.
Pilots read the information on cockpit display screens and decide with the push of a button whether to accept it.
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What’s your vector Victor?
Should we measure the time before this is hacked in hours or days?
It does sound interesting but let me ask.
Are the text message encrypted so they cannot receive malicious text?
This will end when two planes cross paths and collide because the pilots are Texting.
Just one part of Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Data Communications program. A major revolution in how air traffic is handled.
Been doing it between maintenance and my dispatcher ... OTOH speaking is a lot quicker than texting; will have to see what sort of comm’s is involved. Hopefully not when being sequenced for landing.
Been doing it between maintenance and my dispatcher ... OTOH speaking is a lot quicker than texting; will have to see what sort of comm’s is involved. Hopefully not when being sequenced for landing.
Here’s a short (4 minute) video that explains the advantages of Data Comm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTCLHZ0fGsU
We have clearance, Clarence.
Right now, the primary usages of the new CPDLC system (Controller-Pilot Datalink Communications) are during Clearance Delivery prior to taxi and prior to entry into Gander Oceanic airspace when crossing the Atlantic.
These are huge time savers at busier airports and ensure accuracy where English may be an issue.
Pilots still have to talk to controllers for taxi, takeoff, and all other phases of flight as of now for other clearances.
No digital communication can be guaranteed to be secure. The current system may be voice over a digital network but they are still human voices - much more difficult to convincingly fake than a digital text stream. Some things are best left to human to human interaction.
You’re confusing the existing CPDLC system with the new FAA Data Comm system which is part of NextGen. See my links above.
Roger Victor
I almost finished getting my pilots license in the late 90s but gave up because I never could understand what the tower was saying on their crappy radio broadcast. I spent good money on my headset and tried others so that was not the problem. I think going to text was is the way to go as lng as it can be displayed prominently and clrearly in the cockpit.
“It does sound interesting but let me ask.
Are the text message encrypted so they cannot receive malicious text”
Like anyone cannot broadcast misleading info from their own set now?
You need a text system if you have a Scot handling ATC comm. Too hard to understand.....
So now ATCs have to be able to read and write???
Pretty sure that’s racist...
What will this do to the tradition of speaking in a fake, totally unintelligible Southern drawl?
Also, why,when they spend tens of millions on airplanes, do they make the pilots talk on what sounds like a $3 walkie-talkie?
Google “Kennedy Steve” to get an audible glimpse of ATC. Pilots like myself especially should find hours of entertainment.
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