The worst nightmare for an air traffic controller

I saw an Aerocar at an aerospace museum in Washington state a couple years

A man with a golden gun overhead! :)
The obvious problems are related to "Joe sixpack" flying over us. How many
times have we seen cars dead on or beside the road? Each of those is a
forced landing and possible crash for an aircraft.

FAA would probably enforce similar maintenance rules at least
initially.
If these would ever see the production line that is.
I'm glad I'm not living on the top floor though :)))
 
GEO said:
The idiots out there can't drive or think in 2 dimensions let alone 3
!!!

GEO

You can be absolutely, positively, and assuredly guaranteed that flying cars
on a large scale will not be around in your lifetime, the lifetime of your
great, great grandchildren and can probably be assured that it will never
happen.

People make mistakes. Always have and always will. A mistake on the ground
is bad enough, but a mistake in the air would be a disaster.

Machines fail, computers fail and most of all, software fails. The more
complex software becomes, the more critical the failure. I've broken a lot
of software in my time. :)

Look back to the 1950's and you will see that people thought that by the
year 2000, we would be on other planets and that the sky would be filled
with anti-gravity vehicles and other marvelous things. We have cellphones,
jet airliners and computers, but we aren't really that far ahead of where we
were in 1950.

In the 1950's, we had the beginnings of radar to control air traffic and
used 10 miles as a separation standard. Today we use 5 miles, except in
areas near airports and there we use 3. In 55 years, we haven't advanced
any more than that.

Anyway, as soon as we become Northern Mexico, progress will slow down
drastically or even stop. Habla Espanol?

Don
 
Don said:
In the 1950's, we had the beginnings of radar to control air traffic and
used 10 miles as a separation standard. Today we use 5 miles, except in
areas near airports and there we use 3. In 55 years, we haven't advanced
any more than that.
You seem to be right. According to this
http://biz.yahoo.com/special/richcar06_article3.html
bright bulbs at FAA haven't even thought of splitting class B
horizontally for VLJ
and air busses (yet?). Just wait till the VJS prices drop below the
$.5M threshold.
 
Body Roll said:
I guess I'm an idiot after all :-( I meant partitioning class A of
course.

Splitting horizontally only works so far, with the end result being landing
at an airport. You have to merge the traffic at some point and the more
aircraft you have parallel to each other, the more difficulty you have
merging them. Also, each controller has designated airspace and if you try
to horizontally separate traffic, you impinge on another controller's
airspace. Rearranging airspace is an inexact science and is an ongoing
process at all control centers.

Don
 

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