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There is something seriously wrong with the way pilots communicate with aircraft.
What needs to be designed is something similar to how routers work. Each router has a unique name, and planes need the same.
When you drive by McDonalds or Tim Hortons you can identify a wifi router and it will say "Bell Wifi At McDonalds" or similar. Planes need the exact same, if not better, way of identification.
Flying up and identifying the plane by its decal (numbered identification on the tail) is an absurd and 1940's style technology. It's not even technology, it's complete lack of.
The aviation industry and air traffic control mechanisms, I'm afraid to say, are a fucking joke.
Even a radio station can broadcast the song title that is playing, on your radio LCD in a car. So there is no reason that a plane could not theoretically (and practically) broadcast it's handle, name, or ID via radio signal, microwave, or satellite. Instead of randomly through brute force tuning in to different frequencies and channels to try and contact a plane, how about just finding him the same way you drive by McDonalds and see a router name broadcast to you. Indeed the signal has to be strong enough to travel far enough of a distance, but if radio waves cannot do it we have other ways, such as satellites.
All planes should have this installed as a basic safety mechanism. We are talking about people's lives here. A plane pilot can get killed because some idiot is "tuning in" to frequencies trying to contact him, rather than just flying up to him and finding his plane name like you drive by Tim Hortons and see the router name pop up on your screen. We are talking about flying objects in the sky that can kill human beings with one small mistake, and a burger chain restaurant has more advanced technology than an aircraft? A coffee shop that sells coffee for a dollar, has more advanced technology than a fucking $150,000 aircraft?
And this technology would not be expensive to implement, considering wifi router technology has gone down to a measly $40. If all airplanes had a wifi style identification installed on them the costs would be reduced due to bulk installation on thousands of planes.
That's right folks: the entire aircraft control mechanisms need a deep looking at. Because what we have right now is stupid.
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