https://skiesmag.com/features/new-eyes-sky-nav-canada-move-forward-digital-air-traffic-services/ Aviation, Aerospace and Aircraft News Magazine Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://skiesmag.com/features/new-eyes-sky-nav-canada-move-forward-digital-air-traffic-services/#comment-319131 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:09:43 +0000 https://skiesmag.com/?post_type=features&p=347565#comment-319131 I don’t agree using cameras and screens. Computer glitch, failure etc.
Better in person in my opinion. How about the lag between the camera and monitor?

]]> https://skiesmag.com/features/new-eyes-sky-nav-canada-move-forward-digital-air-traffic-services/#comment-317675 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 02:28:18 +0000 https://skiesmag.com/?post_type=features&p=347565#comment-317675 I think this is a disaster waiting to happen, air traffic control crews looking into screens. Maybe with the right design and setup it might stop rain from obstructing the view, but I think the towers’ slanted windows did that. If something goes down or is hacked, there can be no way to see out. In one photo, there is a colour difference at the edges of two screens, I’m sure that can throw someone off. Same with doing this to airplanes in place of flight deck windscreens as mentioned in a message, not a good idea, wipers may still be needed, tiny for lenses where cameras might be used but still there and wiping. And more electronics to run those screens, cameras and whatever else gives the images, it’s a nightmare how much wiring and electrical components are in airplanes now, including for seatback screens. My hope is where there are people operating, they continue to have a real way to see out, where there are plans for no longer people operated, we’ll have a better choice to avoid that and have people continue guiding our way even where glass and wipers passing by are it. Crews running ATC and flights have too little time to mess with blackened or messed up screens. Many airplanes and pilots do have instrument only flight capabilities, however, the surprise of the view suddenly gone of messed with may cause troubles before taking command by instruments only, especially for new pilots. I think the loss of real gauge instrumentation is not a good idea already for all the reasons mentioned above. Lose one old-school gauge to mechanical failure and there’s another just like it on the other side with all the rest on both sides still working fine. And these gauges can’t be hacked mid flight, they all work or the flight gets delayed for repairs or another airplane gets used.

]]> https://skiesmag.com/features/new-eyes-sky-nav-canada-move-forward-digital-air-traffic-services/#comment-312965 Tue, 09 May 2023 16:35:11 +0000 https://skiesmag.com/?post_type=features&p=347565#comment-312965 I think it’s great. The same thing will happen in the cockpit with the new satellite abilities to transmit data, the copilot will become remote and look after 2/3 flights.

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