ICAO DEVELOPS NEW FLEXIBLE GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
September 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT seems such an obvious idea - it is surprising that it has not been undertaken before: bringing the air industry's great and good together to thrash out how improvements to air navigation should be made in a comprehensive but flexible plan. But it has not. Past attempts to facilitate technological change in ATM have generally been driven by new equipment being made available, with governments getting together internationally to impose order on chaos after the fact. This is a kind of backwards-to-front way of planning a global industry and the ...
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