Originally Posted by
CoefficientX
This^^^^^^^
Had a discussion on the jumpseat today. The rollout, implementation and execution of domestic CPDLC has been years in the making and it’s still got a ways to go. Turns out pushing reroutes and frequency changes to airliners is fairly complicated. CPDLC runs about 100K per airframe.
If something as relatively simple as uplinking reroutes and freq changes is this cumbersome how in the world does anyone think we are only a decade or so away from thousands of airliners whizzing around the country autonomously day in and day out without a hitch…..
Well the government is involved with that so..... Some of ya'll probably don't remember that NASA (government operation) used to launch people into space. It's true. I watched from my back yard.