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I'm sure someone has already suggested it...
But a global database of today's flight plans hooked into the data from whoever it is that gets the engine pings would show up radical flight path deviation in a hurry, wouldn't it?
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The engine pings that occur once per hour and don't
contain GPS location data? No probably not. |
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Agreed they don't contain GPS info, but the satellite that receives the pings gives some idea of where it was, and I think there is an analysable amount of doppler shift in the signals... |
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I'm not going for pinpoint accuracy, just some system that picks up radical course deviations....which then goes "gling, gling, gling" in a bunker somewhere in Switzerland, then the attendant takes the newspaper off his (or her) face and gets on the blower.... |
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