-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Spade ]
Posted At: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:48 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: How can we "fix" LEX to prevent wrong runway selection
everywhere?
Subject: How can we "fix" LEX to prevent wrong runway selection
everywhere?

Jim Carter wrote:

I've followed the lengthy and somewhat heated discussion speculating
responsibility in the LEX accident, but I've not seen any thread on
improvements other than a few comments about traffic lights on
runways,
or more people added to the system to double-check the
double-checkers.
I'm interested in what the industry might do to achieve a technical
solution with relatively small front-end cost and very, very little
operational cost. (As you suspect, I have nothing to do with the
government or any of its agencies).

The fixes are already in place for what happened at LEX.


Other than the lighting, numbering, signage, and instruments in the
cockpit I'm not sure what "fixes" you might be thinking about. Sam, if
you meant those items I mentioned here, then we have to agree that they
still require passive human interpretation and are still being
overlooked or ignored. My solution isn't 100% complete, but I think it
might be closer than we already are.

The concerns of the industry are (correctly) about runway intrusions,
such as happen at places like LAX far too often.

I wonder if this solution could also be used to address runway
incursions by predicting movement of aircraft on the ground. Wouldn't it
be nice to be able to solve 2 problems with 1 relatively inexpensive
solution? That factor alone probably dooms the suggestion to oblivion.