Public Property
A good editorial by FCC commissioner Michael J. Copps, in The New York Times.
“Using the public airwaves is a privilege — a lucrative one — not a right...”
The Price of Free Airwaves
Don Brown
June 2, 2007
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.”
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