Safety for airplanes...

[Externet]

Good day all. Move to engineering, computer sciences, whatever deserves it.

Saw in the news today that there is a void in systems for collision prevention.  Discarded because of brutal costs to implement.

Seen for decades the mess of recovering 'black boxes' in accidents.

This top bulge front of the tail is the implementation of internet on airliners, already installed in most, waiting some decisions :

1- With GPS everywhere, why is not the collision prevention been implemented with just an application on cell phones ?  Every aircraft in the vicinity can know position, speed  and heading of others that way.  Is it because that way there will be much less millions to squeeze from the industry ? 

2- Is it time to constantly transmit (download/upload or whatever) in real time all 'recorded' flight data to perhaps eliminate the 'black boxes' or leave those as redundant ?  Radio transmitters have been on-board for decades.

Is this inventing lukewarm water ?  Why the experts do not propose such ?  It is better to implement/spend million dollar systems on each airport and higher insurance fees, that WE end paying as higher fares ? 

 

[swansont]

I don’t understand. Are you claiming that collision avoidance doesn’t exist? Can you provide a link to what you read?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_system

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/afx/afs/afs400/afs410/airborne-collision-avoidance-system-acas

[Externet]

Hi.  Collision avoidance that will not be implemented:

---> https://scrippsnews.com/stories/a-runway-collision-warning-system-for-pilots-stalled-at-the-faa/

[exchemist]

7 hours ago, Externet said:

Hi.  Collision avoidance that will not be implemented:

---> https://scrippsnews.com/stories/a-runway-collision-warning-system-for-pilots-stalled-at-the-faa/

This seems written from the point of view of the company (Honeywell), that was and maybe still is trying to promote this apparently expensive and and hard to install system.  As I read it, it would only work at 35 airports and would need to be customised for each one. So hardly surprising the authorities did not jump at the chance. 

If you read on in the piece, there seem to be less costly alternatives in development. 

[hoanghuan89]

No idea, 😬