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I can see something like this being able to work without paying for access to a flightaware api or something similar as ADS-B rolls out fully. A lot of aviation companies still pay hefty fees to tap into ATC data, that will essentially be made free. ADS-B Out broadcasts identification, position, altitude...

With more aviation geeks out there supplying the data, people won't be reliant on centralized sources of info.

http://www.aopa.org/Advocacy/Air-Traffic-Services-,-a-,-Tech...

Everybody is waiting for the story of somebody hacking a 747 and flying it from the economy plus section.

It'll happen eventually, but hacking the computer that filed the flight plan is not hacking the plane.

If LOT had a few back up laptops on a different network they would have been able to file flight plans with no delays.

State of the art, space aged technology.

Some operational C-130s still have a little sextant port for shooting a star but only a few of the old guys would still even know how it works.

The GPS most of them use is almost as old, a $20 Garmin handheld could navigate circles around it.

More interesting waypoints.

The SSTIK1 Departure from KSFO has a few good ones: UTOOB, NTELL, AYOOH, EBAYE. http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KSFO/DP/SSTIK+ONE+(...

One that always made us chuckle was a standard routing from London over Belgium, the the Biggin Hill VOR, BIG, the KONAN waypoint, then the Koksy VOR, so the route was BIG KONAN KOK.

The eyebrow raiser was called DROWN, and its right between Cuba and the Southern tip of Florida. Not accidental.

Little Rock Airport has the ICAO code KLIT. There's heaps of good ones.

I used to dispatch international flights. The author pulled back the veil on some esoteric aviation knowledge and still managed to make a good story of it. Good form.

Kind of sounds like the beginning of Cinco e-Trial.

The best part is, e-Trial never gets it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2RLTmqG4w