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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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I've been reading your blog since the days when you were writing the column for AVWeb, and I've always stuck with your blog - even when you weren't posting much - because you had some good links on the sidebar (James Fallows, eb-misfit...). But now the links are gone, so it's a double-whammy.