zOMG, GPS!
the morons of the lamestream media are outdoing themselves in the rush to say something stupid about the loss of air france flight 477 — now with help from one of the dumbasses at reason foundation. in an article titled “Common GPS could help better track airline flights“,
“It’s a crude system they’re using now,” said Robert Poole, an aviation expert with the free market-oriented Reason Foundation. “For 100 dollars, you can run down and buy a GPS system, put it in your car and know exactly where you are. But planes don’t have it.”
typical loudmouthed fool. plenty of airliners have GPS. the plane knowing where it is isn’t the problem ostensibly being discussed; it’s having that information updated regularly to ATC hundreds of miles away. using the example of a car, or even an iPhone location prog, has no potential literal transfer to transmitting transoceanic aircraft location data regularly to ATC.
count on the deadline-centric liars from the dying media to screw that pooch. when discussing guns or aviation, they’re wrong normally. the writer of the article simply attempts to stir up disgust at the apparent stupidity of airline operators who’re obviously too stupid or cheap to go to best buy and throw down $100 for each of their planes. the noive!
who do these decrepit donks think were the first users of GPS? aviation before cars, of course. and decades before GPS there was INS, a standard feature on big airliners providing remarkably precise location estimates — to the crew.