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, February 09, 2010
Curious, Most Curious
Take a moment to read this story from the Wall Street Journal. Just read it once. Don’t go back and reread it three times like I did. Just once, and then come on back.
CAA: Proposals To Reform Incentives For NERL To Reduce Delays
Now, ask yourself a few questions:
1) What was that all about ?
2) If you can’t answer #1 -- and you’re in aviation -- to whom is the story directed ?
3) If you can’t answer #2, what’s it doing in the Wall Street Journal ?
Most Curious. Maybe it makes sense in London.
”LONDON (Dow Jones)--The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority, or CAA, said Tuesday...“
Don Brown
February 9, 2010
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