Visit to the Control Tower

"GMOD10X" wrote in message
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2) There is a radar on the field, and the tower is wired to show the radar
to the guys in the cab, but there is in fact no display. The display is
in center, 400 miles away. To get a display they need 30,000 movements
per year. They have 29,000.


Or until they have a mid-air that kills a few people and
little white sheets and goo are scattered over some nice neighborhood

The FAA is typical Government. People must die before the Tombstone agency
does anything. Now if some VIP dies they will also throw money and
equipment at the problem

Sorta like you don't get a red light at the busy intersection until some
people die or a kid gets killed getting off a school bus

Typical ****ed up Government. Beans before souls.

What if your wife or kid or you were one of those statistics BEFORE you
get the red light or the radar display??

Changes the perspective a little huh??

Not in any rational way. The FAA must operate within a budget just like
anyone else. There may be locations that can benefit from such a service,
but at what cost? And who is going to pay those costs? Are you willing to
accept user fees at that airport to pay for such a service? Should fuel
taxes be raised? Should John Q. Taxpayer be required to foot the bill? And
assuming you could pay for an install a radar display in every single tower
than can use one, could you have saved more lives by using the same amount
of money making common sense changes like those traffic lights you spoke
about? Let's look at the statistics.

The US already has the safest air transportation system in the world and the
current trend is already going down. There are typically only 15-20 mid air
collisions in the US, and most of those happen near uncontrolled fields.

In 2003 there were 0 mid-air collisions at controlled fields.

In 2002 there were 3 mid-air collisions at controlled fields. Two happened
at fields that already had radar, and one happened at Sun-n-Fun, which
doesn't even have a permanent tower.

In 2003 there were 0 mid-air collisions at controlled fields.

See where this is going?

Changes the perspective a little huh??

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