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Backatcha Bandit said:
A plane being sold in 2003 with no mention if any upgrades. That doc also says
so wasn't built until after 9/11. Yet somehow this is supposed to prove these were fitted at the time.FMC/FANS Honeywell pegasus 2002
from that article you get.
United Airlines, for example, has employed the equipment for a wide variety of purposes, including:
Testing avionics installations
So the FMC/FANS were installed in the simulator to test they would work on their aircraft. Seems a very sensible step to take before actually fitting them on a live aircraft.
Which enables ATC to send ATC commands to the pilot where radio is unreliable.The 'System' you are referring to there is FANS.
The pitot tube communicates with the FMC/FCS, the FMC/FCS alters altitude (or rather it doesn't, as the pitot tube is the equivalent of a car's speedometer, not the altitude sensor, Mr. Avionics Expert).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system Your talking utter bollox again.
A pitot-static system is an avionics component which directs impact pressure from a Pitot tube and static air pressure into the appropriate flight instruments. The system allows a pilot to know an aircraft's airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend.
I just checked the wiki on FANS to make sure I wasn't about to make a twat of myself )) and the first line reads "Future Air Navigation Systems (FANS) is a standard developed by the air transport industry to allow more aircraft to fit into a given volume of air space" - which seems a little at odds with your insistence that 'That report on the use of FANS says it's only for use in remote areas with little traffic'.
From that wiki article if you'd bothered to read more than the first sentance you get.
Oops.ATC radar is often absent over oceans and large deserts, so the first benefit is the increase of safety - decreasing the risk of midair collisions. Prior to the advent of FANS, pilots had to speak their location over voice links, typically HF radio. HF reaches beyond line of sight. Given the inaccuracy of inertial navigation systems and the noise present on HF links, ATC would insist on quite large separations between aircraft. Consequently a benefit of FANS has been decreased separations between aircraft
I would have put loads of in this post unfortunately the system doesn't allow enough of them.