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jay ([personal profile] jay) wrote2003-06-18 11:05 am
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Another day...

I'm stepping out of a long, dull air traffic management R&D meeting. The organizers already know what they want to build (a evolution of their past decade's work) and quash any ideas or concerns that might cast doubt on the need or priority for their $500M Bright Shiny. Even though the FAA and airlines have already said that they don't want it and won't use the technology, if developed. Sigh. A waste, all around.

Time to go back, paste on an attentive smile and attempt to milk off a few million around the edges for something actually useful.
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[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Even though the FAA and airlines have already said that they don't want it and won't use the technology, if developed.

Yeesh.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh. Yes.

[identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)

... just outta professional curiosity I'm dying to know what their "brilliant concept" is....

Of course if that's an inappropriate question... my apologies.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
They're proposing a centralized, automated trajectory planning and monitoring system that would take sector control out of the hands of humans, in order to reduce separations and fit 3x more aircraft through various chokepoints.

[identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You're right.... (grins).. I hate it!

[identity profile] dancing-star.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems a waste of time and money if they won't think about using the technology, of course something could happen to force the issue.

[identity profile] p3aches.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
are you going to the palo alto dinner?

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
No, given some of the other attendees (i.e., [personal profile] rmjwell, [personal profile] the_ogre, etc.), I've stopped going to the Palo Alto dinner.

milking funding

[identity profile] shadopanther.livejournal.com 2003-06-18 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
:sigh:

Good luck.

My lil' nonprofit is still waiting to hear from NASA back east to see if we will get our requested funding (and if so how much). We were supposed to have heard back by last Friday but we are now waiting on a day by day basis & holding up some decision making on our part because of it.

milk off a few million around the edges

:awe: Again, good luck to you! (I now know my lil' nonprofit's entire yearly budget is only 200K.).

- Shadopanther
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