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  • Re: Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport

    From Larry Dighera@LDighera@att.net to rec.aviation.piloting on Sat May 10 10:36:19 2025
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    How many decades has the FAA been attempting to implement sweeping update of our NAS and ATC?

    I recall the FAA NextGen initiative push over twenty years ago. While ADS-B has been accomplished, it is flawed by its vulnerability of spoofing, and
    use by nefarious persons/states. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen

    Personally, if the new Duffy proposed NAS update is based on satellite communications, it will be even more vulnerable to the vagaries of solar dynamics, and hostile forces. Fiber is the answer, IMNSHO.






    On Tue, 6 May 2025 08:34:12 -0000 (UTC), useapen <yourdime@outlook.com>
    wrote:

    Duffy has since pledged to implement a new, ostate-of-the-arto system at
    air traffic control facilities across the country that would be the oenvy
    of the worldo u but said it might take three to four years.

    oWe are going to radically transform the way air traffic control looks,o >Duffy told Fox NewsA Laura Ingraham.
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  • From Jim Pennino@jimp@gonzo.specsol.net to rec.aviation.piloting on Sat May 10 11:41:05 2025
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    Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> wrote:

    How many decades has the FAA been attempting to implement sweeping update of our NAS and ATC?

    Since 1926, if you count the CAA years.

    You do understand that technology is in a constant state of flux and it
    is problematic to make major changes to all ground and airborne equipment,
    even in just the US?

    The Low Frequency Radio Range (LFR), 1928-1974, was the cat's pajama's
    in the pre-WWII years.

    Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR), 1946-PRES, was a
    huge improvement over LFR but LFR still managed to hang around until 1974.


    I recall the FAA NextGen initiative push over twenty years ago. While ADS-B has been accomplished, it is flawed by its vulnerability of spoofing, and
    use by nefarious persons/states. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen

    Personally, if the new Duffy proposed NAS update is based on satellite communications, it will be even more vulnerable to the vagaries of solar dynamics, and hostile forces. Fiber is the answer, IMNSHO.

    I think you are mixing apples, oranges, and watermelons.

    Communications among facilities is but a very tiny part of the NAS and
    ATC.

    Fiber is also vulnerable to some guy with a backhoe digging in the wrong
    place. There is no 100% failsafe system of any kind for anything.
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