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General Discussion / Re: 360radar network
« on: June 04, 2019, 09:15:22 pm »
A couple of points; I don’t have Lee’s contact details and I have never knowingly met him although I do think I may have had a teleconference involving him, some years ago. I have met Keith Vinning on a number of occasions both professionally and personally but have never managed to get a straight answer about this topic or several other issues despite his clear immense enthusiasm for the functionality.
I don’t feel MLAT should not be deployed at all. I am a huge fan off MLAT generally and have been consistently impressed with what NATS ‘Crystal’ network achieves utilising the technology. As far as 360radar is concerned, I am full of admiration for what has been achieved not least because I am a very early adopter of SBS1 and 3 receivers and Planeplotter enthusiast. However, my enthusiasm is tempered by my other passion which is GA safety and the robust and safe deployment of this sort of functionality in the GA fleet.
The PAW team can, of course, do whatever they want but I have got a particular interest in how PAW data and other aircraft positional data is processed and presented in third party apps. I have a lot of experience in HMI design in relation to ATC tools and functionality and latterly have worked quite closely with that amazing talent, Tim Dawson in the concept of operations and design of SkyDemon Traffic. My concern was and remains that without a high degree of positional accuracy or at least a measure of likely accuracy in relation to each target that the subsequent processing and alerting in relation to those targets can be misleading and at worst, dangerously disorientating.
All I (and I suspect SkyDemon) are trying to establish is how, ahead of the PAW multilaterated data going live, those multilaterated targets will be differentiated from those targets with an emphatic position source and what accuracy is going to be associated with the multilaterated ones. Once that is known, clever people doing clever things with PAW’s clever data can ensure safe and robust presentation of that data.
No more, no less and certainly not worthy of some of the vitriol directed at me by some of the team developing a product I have purchased as a customer.
I don’t feel MLAT should not be deployed at all. I am a huge fan off MLAT generally and have been consistently impressed with what NATS ‘Crystal’ network achieves utilising the technology. As far as 360radar is concerned, I am full of admiration for what has been achieved not least because I am a very early adopter of SBS1 and 3 receivers and Planeplotter enthusiast. However, my enthusiasm is tempered by my other passion which is GA safety and the robust and safe deployment of this sort of functionality in the GA fleet.
The PAW team can, of course, do whatever they want but I have got a particular interest in how PAW data and other aircraft positional data is processed and presented in third party apps. I have a lot of experience in HMI design in relation to ATC tools and functionality and latterly have worked quite closely with that amazing talent, Tim Dawson in the concept of operations and design of SkyDemon Traffic. My concern was and remains that without a high degree of positional accuracy or at least a measure of likely accuracy in relation to each target that the subsequent processing and alerting in relation to those targets can be misleading and at worst, dangerously disorientating.
All I (and I suspect SkyDemon) are trying to establish is how, ahead of the PAW multilaterated data going live, those multilaterated targets will be differentiated from those targets with an emphatic position source and what accuracy is going to be associated with the multilaterated ones. Once that is known, clever people doing clever things with PAW’s clever data can ensure safe and robust presentation of that data.
No more, no less and certainly not worthy of some of the vitriol directed at me by some of the team developing a product I have purchased as a customer.