Good for the flight because it usually puts me to sleep.
"GPS-guided flight control holds promise, but some balk; Fuel economy to rise, but system costly; airlines wary over rollout" July 05, 2011|By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has embarked on the single most ambitious and expensive national transportation project since completion of the interstate highway system, a program called the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).
While cutting services we need now? Now I'm red-eyed in anger.
The NextGen concept sounds simple: Replace an air traffic system based on 60-year-old radar with a satellite-based, Global Positioning System network that would be far more versatile and efficient.
And pray God the satellites never go down or have trouble.
In reality it is an extraordinarily complex undertaking, threatened with delay by airline fears that the government won’t deliver the system in time to justify their expenditures.
Save 'em the trouble and don't allow yourself the joy of sexual molestation or cancer scatter by NOT FLYING ANYWHERE! Swim the ocean if you have to, but JUST DON'T FLY! You will be $AVING YOUR$ELF, if you know what I mean.
NextGen demands the largest investment ever made in civil aviation: between $29 billion and $42 billion for equipment, software, and training by 2025. The cost would be shared by a federal government struggling with budget constraints and an airline industry that has been drained by years of recession and inflated fuel prices....
But they still made profits because of the bag fees!
With GPS precision, planes would be able to travel packed skies in safety at much closer distances. They would be able to fly direct routes, instead of the current system, which relies heavily on flying to waypoints before turning to a final destination.
Direct routing would save airlines billions in fuel costs and minimize pollution.
Keep shovel that s*** into the fuel cell, agenda-pushers!
It would permit more precise choreography of planes at airports, reducing the amount of fuel wasted waiting for takeoff or burned because planes waiting to land are ordered into holding patterns.
For passengers, NextGen would cut flight delays, eliminate time spent on the runway waiting to takeoff, shorten the flight time once airborne, and bring fuel savings that promise to keep ticket prices lower....
Fool me once, shame.... shame on you. Fool me.... we can't get fooled again.
NextGen has virtually no credible enemies - not in the administration, not on Capitol Hill, and not in the airline industry.
Meaning some well-connected corporation or contractor has a going concern. I wonder which politicians have stock in the companies?
But....
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