On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:51 am, bass pumped wrote: > I'm trawling for topics to do my masters thesis on. My interest in > intelligent flight control. Anyone have any good ideas??
The money will be in automating air transport, beginning with replacing the current ATC system with a Freeflight type of system where all the airplanes deconflict themselves and set up their own arrival spacing. This is already being researched, but the more the merrier. This will allow airplanes to fly their most efficient paths, which saves lots of fuel, and also takes the people out of the ATC system, which will save a bundle. Once that is in place then the automated (pilotless) airplane comes next. Some hurdles are taxiing and weather avoidance. Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
