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Ability to provide immediate response in the event of a medical, terrorist or other in-flight emergency.
Ability to initiate monitoring from the ground, the cockpit, automatically when flight parameters are breached or continuously as part of basic flight operations.
Ability to record continuously for full duration of flight.
Ability to initiate investigations in real time prior to recovery of cockpit voice and data recorders.
Ability to use accumulated data to enhance aircraft safety, operating performance and efficiency through more timely maintenance and repair.
Originally posted by snafu7700
but that is a completely different system than the ones you were discussing originally. furthermore, you will never see such a system implemented because, as i mentioned before, the unions will not allow it to happen...they would make damn sure the public knows all about it....not write obscure letters to obscure members of the government like your supposed union in the first post.
edited for grammer.
[edit on 20-12-2006 by snafu7700]
Originally posted by snafu7700
that is a patent for a system ultima, not an actual system that is up and running. and i'll say it again, neither ALPA nor NATCA would allow it to be installed into an airliner because it's unsafe. what you guys dont know is that this argument has been going on behind the scenes since 9/11. "what if we had the ability to take control back from the hijackers from the ground." the answer is always "yes, but what if a hijacker hacks into the system.....then he doesnt have to actually be on the aircraft."
it will never be implemented. period.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Well we already have the systems that can do it. We have radar that can send a remote signal to the transponders, so its not going to take much for some of the sytmes out there to be able to control the aircraft.
Originally posted by snafu7700
i'm not saying that we dont have the technology to make it happen...i'm saying that safety organizations wont let it happen. too many people would have to be involved with a project like that....there is no way it would or could be implemented without someone tipping off the public.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Why would the government worry about what the public thought. They have tested other systems without the public knowing.
Look at all the weapons testing that goes on without the public knowledge.
Originally posted by snafu7700
again, i'm not talking about the government...it's pretty obvious that they wouldnt want this reported. i'm talking about the unions that are involved and the individuals involved....we wouldnt let this happen without ensuring the public was aware of it....at which point the public would make damn sure that it didnt happen. make sense?
Originally posted by defcon5
I guess the Truth Movement is in fact Contellipro.
It must be the truth; I saw it on TV after all.
Same place were most of the Truth Movement fools get their aviation facts from.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
If NORAD or another agency wanted to take over a plane that was hijacked do you think they would worry about unions or the public ?
Originally posted by snafu7700
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
If NORAD or another agency wanted to take over a plane that was hijacked do you think they would worry about unions or the public ?
i dont think you grasp what i am trying to say. it would be union employees installing such equipment in aircraft, and it would be union employees flying said aircraft, and it would be union employees controlling said aircraft.....and none of those unions would allow it to happen without the approval of the american people, which wouldnt happen. it would never get to the point of norad or another agency being able to use it.
Originally posted by snafu7700
they will if they are informed as to what it actually does, which is where the unions come in.
Boeing last week received a US patent for a system that, once activated, removes all control from pilots to automatically return a commercial airliner to a predetermined landing location.
Originally posted by snafu7700
again, it's a patent on a design. nobody has actually installed anything.....and they wont, because the american people wont let it happen. unless you come up with something other than plans on a board or patents, i think we're pretty much done here.