Originally Posted by DENpilot

You're overly-simplistic view on this reflects on your lack of experience as a pilot.


First off, if the automation fails, what makes you assume this will always be a single failure? Now you've got a guy hand flying and trying to troubleshoot. Good luck with that one.

Let's talk about the airspace in the Northeast. One guy gets deviated. With as close spacing as you are talking, this could have a ripple effect, affecting the "plotted trajectory" of thousands of aircraft.

How do you handle thunderstorms? How about moderate chop FL300 and above? All these aircraft have "plotted trajectories" and the system has just been kinked by environmental factors. Can you fathom the logistical nightmare that will be created? Throw in a failure and it is a nightmare scenario.

Oh, and what if there's a datalink failure? You've got 500 airplanes in a single sector with automation failure now. That's got disaster written all over it.

Last, you cannot do this without either completely eliminating or incorporating GA. Do you propose we ground every single 172 and Learjet to implement this system?