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"GMOD10X" wrote in message
... 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?? http://www.aopa.org/asf/ntsb/searchResults.cfm?tss=8 |
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