ABSTRACT
To illustrate what the future Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) system might be like for the pilots, this chapter examines a typical, imaginary flight on a Boeing 747 of a major airline from Los Angeles to Frankfurt in the year 2010. The operators and airline personnel on the ramp had also received a copy of the pre-departure clearance in their trucks and were preparing for pushback. The system was developed to prevent holding of aircraft in the air, and to sequence aircraft coming from different directions at different speeds and altitudes, for landing on a particular runway. Training, testing, involvement, simulation and retraining were the key to winning acceptance of all these new systems and procedures by pilots and controllers. More monitoring was required when using Automatic Dependent Surveillance than when using any other kind of surveillance, and humans, as it turned out, are very bad monitors, preferring decision-making.
