On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:16:42 GMT, "Colin W Kingsbury"
wrote in
et::

The single biggest problem with free flight is that without extensive
reliance on computers, it simply can't work.

Today the STARS system
http://www.faa.gov/ats/atb/Sectors/Automation/STARS/ is currently
being deployed in the US. STARS provides updated computer technology
for approach and terminal phases of flight. ERAM
http://www.faa.gov/aua/enroute/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.products&page=detail&pro dID=1
architecture replaces the current aging, and soon to be unsupportable,
en route system while providing all of today’s functionality and
adding the new capabilities needed to support the evolution of the
NAS. It will begin being deployed in 2006. So the FAA is addressing
the issue as we speak.