AA in Air Traffic Control Newsletter
Air Traffic Control Newsletter #120
“Flight tracking is at a sweet spot between new ATM technologies, passenger demand for continuous internet connectivity, and the introduction of new aircraft with significantly more capability. To be tied down now to any standard, even less a product, would be madness. We must let the potential energy of competition work its magic. True it is that we want all of this to happen within agreed bands of spectrum, if that is necessary to avoid duplication, but maybe we do not yet need to know which band. Maybe more than one spectrum band will not be a technical drawback. We should wait and see.”
-Andrew Charlton, “Tracking the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Aviation Intelligence Reporter, Dec. 2014/Jan. 2015
