Professional Pilot, October 2017
Squawk Ident LOCATIONS MEM 901 345 2992 HOU 713 649 8700 CLT 704 359 0440 CHA 423 855 2299 PROFESSIONAL PILOT October 2017 31 ADS B is the best innovation on the list Anything that helps with traffic awareness and onboard real time weather is greatly needed But I really wonder about talking to the radios just think about the issues with autocorrect on your smartphone or having misunderstandings even when talking with someone you know extremely well Dan Upstrom ATP CFII King Air 300 Captain Flexsteel Industries East Dubuque IL Here are several tech improvements I would like to see A 1 minute weather capability via a discrete frequency for anywhere in the contiguous US FAA traffic management computer that provides a full USA ATC picture with the capability to zoom in to any TRACON area regardless of where your flight is located HUD availability for small training aircraft and voice command radios and NAV devices John Keller ATP CFI Helo Citation I CJ1 Owner Chief Pilot Keller Aviation Services Intl Cave Creek AZ Believe that the information revolution in the cockpit is the most significant advancement in memory Beginning with the development of GPS I never would have dreamed 15 years ago we would have avionics talk to each other and to PEDs Or that synthetic vision would became affordable even in LSAs And now portable HUDs are coming to market which will be affordable to the masses For those of us who have been in this game for decades all this is truly astounding Ralph Beatty ATP King Air F90 Chief Pilot Flightline Aviation Irwin PA FANS 1A and CPDLC have greatly increased the productivity and efficiency of our Challenger 604 Al Grajek ATP Challenger 604 Chief Pilot Adios Aviation Boca Raton FL No more Jepp revisions by hand with the iPad All aircraft paperwork is now electronic which reduces weight There are numerous apps for aviation holdover times aircraft manuals schedules Fore Flight etc Don Coder ATP CFII Falcon 2000EX Learjet 60 Gulfstream G200 Captain Sedgwick CMS Dubuque IA Latest and greatest improvements to safety are ADS B and EFVS Technology in general compared to 10 years ago is mind boggling Looking forward to the next 10 years even though I can see UAV development removing pilots from certain types of flying activities LLoyd Sparrow ATP Challenger 300 Lead Captain Silver Air Canoga Park CA wilsonair com
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