AviationBanter - View Single Post - CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA

**Marty Shapiro** · October 31st 07, 06:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air

(John Kulp) wrote in
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:38:25 GMT, Marty Shapiro
wrote:

Funny none of the airlines I know of are saying this. They are all
advocating just this upgrade and the FAA is going to have it build.
So just what do you know that those running the business don't?

Let's see. US airline management, which, collectively since
day one
of air travel in the US, have managed to operate at a net loss, says
GPS will solve our problem. An air traffic controller tells you
about spacing requirements for both wake turbulence and operational
requirements. And you believe the airline management?

Completely irrelevant to the issue and there are huge differences
between airline managements. See United and Continental.

Airlines LIE. Pure and simple. Airlines LIE.

And all Mexicans are lazy and emotional as some other biased moron
posted earlier. Ever think you're just a thick idiot that can't
analyze anything?

For example, I was once on a coast to coast flight when, just
after
the cabin doors closed, but before push back, our captain gets on the
horn and tells us there will be a two hour delay due to weather.
Well, as I normally pull an FAA weather briefing before any flight I
take, whether I'm flying the airplane or just a passenger, I pulled
out my briefing and could not see any weather probelms anywhere on our
route. The passenger in the seat next to me noticed what I was
reading and said that she worked at the FAA ARTCC which covered our
departure airport. She calls her coworkers at center and they don't
know of any weather delays. They then call the FAA flow control
center to see if there are any problems anywhere in the USA. Nope,
none whatsoever. Yet the airline is saying there is a weather
problem.

Typical of the morons that post on the usenet. Ace, in the summer
there are nearly one million flights a month in the US. So, being the
cretin you are, you extrapolate one flight in about a million to come
to this brilliant conclusion?

Airlines LIE.

And idiots post baloney like this on the usenet.

You are a moron.

GPS can NOT reduce the minimum safe spacing in trail between aircraft.
That spacing is dictated by wake turbulence and the time the runway is
possessed by only one aircraft, specifically the time from when it lands
until it clears the runway or from when it enters the runway and takes off.

Tells us: How high must an aircraft climb before it can execute a
turn (non-emergency)? If it is more than 0' AGL, then you need to maintain
wake turbulence separation for take off. How about landing? You want to
creep up too close and get flipped by wing vortex? That spacing is
dictated primarily by the size of the aircraft. GPS doesn't address either
of these requirements.

Only a moron believes what airline managment says.

PLONK!

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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