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Are "Popups" A Hassle?
Newps wrote:
: That's what I was saying. Although it is pretty sad that the nationwide : system cannot keep everything together in a unified way. It's not that it's that much : data... just that the system is so old that it cannot handle it. If a couple : megabytes of memory in a GPS can handle every APT, VOR, ADF, INT for all of north : america, regular computers shouldn't have trouble. : You don't know what you're asking for. A few MB of computer memory is : not the issue. If you take off VFR and fly from Miami to Seattle you : want you're IFR clearance to be ready at each controllers position along : the way. Do you have any idea how many IFR flightplans never get used : in the course of an average day? I wasn't actually referring to flight plans... those are dynamic data and not everyone needs to know about it. Also, they're well-defined so shuttling them to the appropriate facility is relatively straight-forward. I'm talking about navaids such. I think one should be able to file a cross-country flight plan, starting at an airport or perhaps a nearby point, and file with the endpoint being the IAF designator at the destination airport. There may be something subtle about why one wouldn't necessarily want to have a clearance to an IAF designator, but it's better than the airport. At least the IAF has a procedure for arriving at an airport... flying over the top at MEA doesn't. If I were to try that, chances are they computers won't have any idea the designator for the destination airport. THAT's what seems silly to me. -Cory -- ************************************************** *********************** * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************** *********************** |
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