On Dec 7, 6:34 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Dec 7, 10:29 am, rishil wrote:

A popular American airline company has recently has teamed up with
Yahoo and Research in Motion (RIM) to offer this Wireless Internet for
its passengers..

http://askwiki.blogspot.com/2007/12/...t-while-flying....

Good Day!!

We've been able to use the internet in our CAP aircraft (182) for
awhile. It uses sat based internet. However, its not super reliable.
Boeing actually offered in flight internet access a few years ago but
not enough airlines purchased it, so the technology isn't new.

If an aircraft is flying in the continental US, what is the typical
maximum distance from aircraft to aviation-related point-of-presence
(POP)? Anything will do...a radio beacon, FSS, whatever...as long as
it has electricity.

It would seem that, if this distance is short enough, the aircraift
could behave like a giant cell phone, with the POPs being the base-
servivce-stations (BSS). I realize that, with Internet Protocol, the
technical challenges of mobility are different, but if these
challenges were overcome, the system would probably be more reliable
(and faster) than satellite-based systems.

The system could also be used for communication normally reserved for
the radio, with VOIP, etc.

It seems that many of the limitations to advancing the field of
aviation has to do with the information technology infrastructure.
The FAA's NexGen project for example, (http://www.aci-na.org/docs/FAA
%20Reauthorization%20House%20Hearing%20Report%20Se nate%20Approves
%20FY2007%20Funding.pdf) is not feasible unless there is a gross
reassesment of the nature of air-to-air and air-to-ground
communication. IOW, IMO, they will have to solve a problem that
computer sciences have been trying to solve for 30 years: creating a
well-formed supernetwork that goes beyond what the current Internet
offers, one that includes real mobility, and ad-hoc mesh networks in
the sky.

-Le Chaud Lapin-