The Flick -- A term used by air traffic controllers to describe a mental model representing the current and future positions of air traffic in a section of airspace. Controllers visualize the paths of multiple aircraft in terms of position, altitude, trajectory and speed. Controllers also refer to this as "having the picture." But the picture moves -- like a movie -- hence the term “the flick.”
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Somethin’s Burnin’
And it ain’t love. It’s Georgia. I walked out on the back porch with my morning coffee and started wondering who had lit a fire in their fireplace. It’s been deliciously cool in the mornings here but still...
It turns out it’s smoke from the wildfires in South Georgia and Florida. Whoa ! For those that are geographically challenged, the fires are over 200 miles from Atlanta.
Don Brown
May 22, 2007
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