I imagine that's precisely the result (for the flight school) that the woman wanted.

(Written on 15/10/2021)(Permalink)

Amen to that....

(Written on 08/10/2021)(Permalink)

No we do not have enough bandwidth. Exercise for the reader: go lookup all the data rates for what all parameters the FDR saves, add in at least a 40KBPS bandwidth for each cockpit microphone, and at least that much for each comm and nav transmitter and receiver, then multiply that by the largest number of aircraft ever in that area at one time (who all would be needing to send data at the same time) then look up the geo-sync satellites that would have good enough line of sight for the Hawaii area and get the specs for the bandwidth of every transponder on those satellites, and assuming that all of those transponders were devoted to just aircraft data streams, look at that answer compared with the one you got from adding up all the aircraft data being transmitted. No. we. d0. not. have. enough. bandwidth.

(Written on 08/10/2021)(Permalink)

I spent 30 years in the US defense contractor world before retiring, and either watched, or was part of, over ten different acquisitions, one of them by Collins. Without fail, every one of them followed the same path with just different timelines for the results -- the acquisition was done because the buying company saw a bottom line improvement in their balance sheet in the future if they owned the business they wanted, and the timeline included a serial chain of changes in the acquired business for the benefit of the buyer - not the acquired company, their shareholders, or employees ( and sometimes not even for the acquired company's customers...) they saw some subset of the acquired company's products, features, processes, or stuff like patents, followed a timeline that kept those things and shed the rest or started charging (initially or more expensively) for them. I've really enjoyed being involved with many of FlightAware's features, and I really DO hope that they can keep it li

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

Today's open forum is no barometer for what Collins will turn it into within six months to a year.

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

It's not.

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

and the LE agency will just buy a bigger UAV with no penalties...

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

Robert, I wish you well, but you'd better hurry before Collins really gets their hooks into the services offered and not offered any longer.

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

You mean WHEN they get it wrong...

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)

Amen to that.

(Written on 03/09/2021)(Permalink)