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.”
Sunday, December 28, 2008
And Nobody Wrote ?
Too much Christmas cheer ? Asleep at the switch ? Just figured I couldn’t make a mistake ?
The North Pole is at 90 degrees North Latitude. Not zero.
0000/0000 is somewhere west of Africa on the Equator. I’ve known that ever since Cap’n Andy told me the story about plugging all “zeros” into the INS (Inertial Navigation System) just to see what it would do.
I’m going back to drowning my sorrows in Margaritas.
Don Brown (way too close to the Equator)
December 28, 2008
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