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British Airways Digital Billboard Identifies Flights As They Pass Overhead
While we're no stranger to digital billboards, British Airways' latest endeavor is unlike any we've seen before, using "custom-built surveillance technology" to track incoming BA aircraft, prompting the screen to display a child pointing directly at the plane as it passes overhead. The adjacent text offers up the flight number and its origin or destination, along with a custom message, such as the lowest fare for that route or the current weather where that plane is… (www.engadget.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't know how this has been voted down. This is so cool! I wish we had this here in PHX!
probably because this is a duplicate to the squawk I posted on 11/22/13:
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/38392/British%20Airways%20Digital%20Billboard%20Identifies%20Flights%20As%20They%20Pass%20Overhead
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/38392/British%20Airways%20Digital%20Billboard%20Identifies%20Flights%20As%20They%20Pass%20Overhead
(Duplicate Squawk Submitted)
British Airways' cool new flight-detecting 'digital billboards' are a salute to planespotters!
British Airways has unveiled a clever advertising campaign with a dollop of planespotter appeal. The centrepiece of its LookUp campaign, the British flag-carrier has erected three massive digital billboards which identify BA planes flying overhead.
http://www.ausbt.com.au/british-airways-cool-new-flight-detecting-digital-billboards
British Airways' cool new flight-detecting 'digital billboards' are a salute to planespotters!
British Airways has unveiled a clever advertising campaign with a dollop of planespotter appeal. The centrepiece of its LookUp campaign, the British flag-carrier has erected three massive digital billboards which identify BA planes flying overhead.
http://www.ausbt.com.au/british-airways-cool-new-flight-detecting-digital-billboards
This would be fairly easy to accomplsh... All you need is the LED Billboard screen, A computer to drive it, A programmed animation to change on the fly, and a link to ATC in real time... Very easy to accomplish... to steel a phrase from way back: "We have the technology"!
I believe you forget that it is illegal to tap into or listen to ATC in the UK. Under the British Telephony Act of 1949, it is illegal to listen in to conversations in which you are not a party to such conversations. ATC is listed as one of those that falls under those provisions. So no, BAW couldn't link to ATC in real time for this.
But seeing that this is their own plane with their own schedule, they can follow their own aircraft any time they want.
But seeing that this is their own plane with their own schedule, they can follow their own aircraft any time they want.
It would not be taping. All airlines have the right world wide to track their planes. They can get the live radar data, as well as ACARS data which is being sent to the company.... this would not be a legal issue.