Are "Popups" A Hassle?

: Even if it's still in the system the controller working the airspace two
: hours down the road from your filed departure point isn't going to have the
: flight plan. And you shouldn't expect him to.


That's what I was saying. Although it is pretty sad that the nationwide
system cannot keep everything together in a unified way. It's not that it's that much
data... just that the system is so old that it cannot handle it. If a couple
megabytes of memory in a GPS can handle every APT, VOR, ADF, INT for all of north
america, regular computers shouldn't have trouble.

Anyway... I'm not really bitching... honest... Just that many of the
procedures are due to limitations in the infrastructure AIUI.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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