Comments on: Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System

By: The Florida Masochist » Blog Archive » Hitting the bullseye

The Florida Masochist » Blog Archive » Hitting the bullseye — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:14:24 +0000

[...] Hat tip- James Joyner at OTB [...]

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:11:52 +0000

What happens to the other 2%?...

This new technology is 98% effective preventing CFIT aka Controlled Flight into Terrain....

By: markm

markm — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:21:27 +0000

Sounds kind of like something i've heard of before. My father had a buddy that flew in Vietnam (I don't recall what the plane was other than it was a fighter). He said he could set a predetermined height off the deck and it would hold it real tight. He said if he was flying along on a flat plain that had a "bump" in it, the plane would hold that height over the "bump", thus beating the crap out of the pilot.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:06:55 +0000

I would be interested to compare the statistics of the program (e.g. how close to the ground before it takes control) to some of the stories from actual combat. I seem to remember one from WW2 where the pilot pulled out, clipped the trees and came home with palm fronds embedded in his wing.

Of course aerial combat is very different now, but if nothing else, it is likely to provide something of an aerial sanctuary on the deck. An interesting counter weapon would be a radar beam that could fool the plane as to how close it was to the ground and thus put it into a pre-determined SW driven flight mode.

And I believe their 98% number would indicate they would expect 2.6 inadvertent "landings" instead of 130 over the next 25 years.