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Air Traffic Control and the Relative Position Indicator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

R. Butler
Affiliation:
(Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation)

Extract

The post-war development of air transport has temporarily out-paced the ability of the air traffic control service to provide for safe conduct which is always expeditious, and it has certainly out-moded the concept of visual avoidance. To alleviate the situation in the areas of high-density traffic in the United States, the Air Transport Association of America outlined a requirement for an airborne collision warning device.

Type
The Avoidance of Collision by Airborne and Shipborne Means - II
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1958

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