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1936
1936 - 1319.PDF
MAY 21, 1936- Flight photograph. WHEREAS, a few years ago, the operators and knowledgeable air travellers looked to the aircraft and engine designers to provide them with regu larity, now they look to the radio experts and pilots. Which is not to say that the standard of weather has deteriorated or that the present-day machine is per fect. Because of the aeroplane's essential defects, error- proof signalling and guiding systems have been made more and more necessary for all-weather operations, and these systems must naturally depend on the success of various f orms of radio Many changes the next few may eventu- will make a equip- s a r y. development. are likely to take place during vears, and aircraft designers ally develop a type which great deal of the radio ment totally unneces- In the meantime AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL Modern Equipment for Modern Con ditions : Some Present-day Problems : British, Continental and American Systems Explained we can only plan for present conditions, and, as far as Europe is concerned, the traffic control and guiding sys tems have crystallised into a clearly defined shape. This "shape" involves the ground control officers, ing systems have crystallised into a clearly defined shape. This "shape" involved the ground control officers, rightly or wrongly, in a good deal of responsibility. A man, after all, who is working and thinking in the com parative calm of the control office should be surer and quicker in his decisions than any pilot. It involves the use of special controlled areas and, more recently, of a separate beam transmitting beacon to enable the pilot to find the airport after he has been directed to it and given permission to come in. Eventually, so crowded is the air becoming in the region of terminal airports, it may be necessary for pilots on certain routes to fly only at speci fied heights until the actual moment of the approach. Although it is customary to think of the ultra-short wave beacon, with its accessories, as a device designed expressly to allow flying in conditions of visibility which might otherwise prohibit it, the real value of this develop ment lies at present in its capacity to increase the number of landings that are possible at a busy airport in bad
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