FAA Administrator Blakey Reduces Safety In The Name Of Procedural Conformance

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Larry Dighera wrote:

An unbelievable waste of money when a simple hole in the
console has worked perfectly well for the last 30 or 40 years.

And you still can't get rid of the hole, as it will be necessary for
operations when the computers go down?

Landline/intercom

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

"Price check on isle 4, price check on isle 4. Ground controller to a white
courtesy telephone for a price check on isle 4."

Jim


"Newps" wrote in message
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Jim Burns wrote:
Ok, Newps... you're killing me with curiosity... how does the electronic
"hole in the floor" work?

Simple. We've eliminated the hole. Yep, we've replaced the notoriously
unreliable gravity with tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronic
equipment. At the new place all strips will be printed with a bar code,
just like at the grocery store. When the ground controller reads a
clearance he scans the strip and that loads it into the tower
controllers computer. When the tower controller launches an IFR
airplane he holds the strip under a bar code reader mounted at his
position and that causes a strip to be printed out for the radar
controller with the heading that the tower controller entered on his
keypad. An unbelievable waste of money when a simple hole in the
console has worked perfectly well for the last 30 or 40 years.

"Blowinginthewind" wrote in message
. ..
The real problem at the FAA is

SNIP Racist/Sexist Rant

Who didn't se that coming?

("Jim Burns" wrote)
Simple. We've eliminated the hole. Yep, we've replaced the notoriously
unreliable gravity with tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronic
equipment. At the new place all strips will be printed with a bar code,
just like at the grocery store.

"Price check on isle 4, price check on isle 4. Ground controller to a
white courtesy telephone for a price check on isle 4."


[Cut from the web]
Have you seen the Ford TV commercial where the guy's checking out at the
self-check with the voice, and it gets stuck on "Wart Remover, Wart Remover,
Wart Remover", so he whacks it, and it starts rapid-firing "wart, wart,
wart, wart, wart, wart..." Very funny!

I'd name the new system...
(W)ide (A)rea (R)adar (T)racking ????

And if W.A.R.T. goes down? Someone suggested "Landline/intercom" as a
solution.

I'm going one factor of simplicity better: What are those brass tubes on
ships called (that you talk through) from the bridge to the engine room?
Sort of like a hole in the floor but more expensive.


Montblack
Hate to be the ATC employee returning from a two week vacation, learning the
hard way that they've replaced the brass [ship's] speaking tubes with
pneumatic 'drive thru bank' deposit tubes.

....that's gonna hurt!

I prefer the Flintstone Intercom System... you remember?

Talk to the bird, open the cage, bird flies to receiving party's cage and
squawks messege. Probably wouldn't work, too tempting to use the operations
manual for the floor of the bird cages.
Jim

Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 11 May 2006 17:28:29 -0600, Newps wrote
in ::


An unbelievable waste of money when a simple hole in the
console has worked perfectly well for the last 30 or 40 years.


And you still can't get rid of the hole, as it will be necessary for
operations when the computers go down?

Nope, no hole in the console. And that's because the tower shaft sits
on the end of the building, not directly over the TRACON. The plastic
tube would have to run outside the building.

("Jim Burns" wrote)
I prefer the Flintstone Intercom System... you remember?

Talk to the bird, open the cage, bird flies to receiving party's cage and
squawks messege. Probably wouldn't work, too tempting to use the
operations manual for the floor of the bird cages.


I'll meet you halfway[*]. We lose the prehistoric bird ...but keep "The
Cage".

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo...elepathic.html
(Scroll down a little) Telosians working ATC

http://homepage.mac.com/m5comp/trekbits/trekpics/cage/
Scroll down for Episode 1 pics. I like the captain's hat and console TV.
g

Montblack :-)[*] http://users.crocker.com/~slinberg/p...e/halfway.html