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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by jrockway on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:52AM (#9105615)
NextGen gives the pilots (with "ADS-B in") the same view of the airspace that the controllers get. Right now, they only have a limited view, via the TCAS.
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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by cmurf on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:03AM (#9105643)
Yes, but WiFi doesn't give me the same view of the airspace the controllers get, or pilots will eventually get. WiFi gets me something like flightware tracking which is a lot slower and more delayed than primary/secondary radar, TCAS or ADS-B.

My point is I think the article's author thought they were making a funny. And it wasn't correct or funny.

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