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From: stachour@sctc.com (Paul Stachour)
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Subject: Re: Copenhagen Air Traffic Control System
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.181327.14339@sctc.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 18:13:27 GMT
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mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:


>I hope it was clear that my "bottom line" was sarcastic. I find myself 
>wondering how the Europeans managed to develop a working, installed ATC
>system in Ada while the FAA system just drags along. The European airports
>seem progressively to be adopting versions of the Thomson system. Taken as

     I was told (take this as unsubstantiated, not fact) that one
of the reasons that the Copenhagen Air Traffic Control System worked
as well as it did is that it was:
   a) automated to all of Denmark
   b) depended upon telephone handoffs from other countries
       (no worry about machine-to-machine updates in-sync, losses, etc.)

  Please note that updating just the Copenhagen ATC for Demark is very
different from updating all of the USA.  It's maybe like doing Boston
only.

  Wishing I had more info,    ??Paul

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