NextGen...the next PITA

This story just looks like growing pains for the system. The ability to more precisely route traffic can be used for good or it can be used for evil. In this case, some fuel savings were, possibly inadvertently, traded off for increased noise pollution. Looks like that'll be corrected shortly. (Well, shortly by FAA standards: a few months.) It's only been a little over a year...it's going to take some time to balance out how the new system gets used. Action, like the noise complaints and meetings, is exactly what the FAA needs for input on how to direct the traffic. So, though it sucks for Pacifica for a year or two, this is how the system works and should be better eventually. (The only question is: when is eventually? And that's a bureaucratic process problem and not a fault in NextGen.)
 
NexGen has plenty of real engineering failures. It need not be blamed for poor choices traffic routing. Never route the airliners over the rich.
 
denverpilot said:
NexGen has plenty of real engineering failures. It need not be blamed for poor choices traffic routing. Never route the airliners over the rich.
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Pacifica ain't all that rich....jus sayin
 
Still don't see how Next Gen is going to increase the capacity of the national airspace system. The limiting factor is and always has been the amount of asphalt.
 
vkhosid said:
Pacifica ain't all that rich....jus sayin
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Not nearly as rich as the North Beach Pacific Heights neighborhoods the oceanbound traffic used to get routed over (but at much higher altitude).

There are some really, really dumpy parts of Pacifica.
 
steingar said:
Still don't see how Next Gen is going to increase the capacity of the national airspace system. The limiting factor is and always has been the amount of asphalt.
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Do you mean ramp space or runways?
 
arnoha said:
Do you mean ramp space or runways?
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Runways have been the limiting factor for many years. The main cause of delays in the system are overloading and weather. Don't see how Next Gen will fix any of that. I do see who it can break more easily, though.
 
It would seem that some departure re-routing could, and eventually most likely will, be done but the increase in traffic volume - that's just the economy. It has always been projected to increase and most likely will continue to do so into the future. There is nothing seen on the horizon that is going to cause a decline in airline traffic, automobile traffic or the population of the planet.
 
Silvaire said:
It would seem that some departure re-routing could, and eventually most likely will, be done but the increase in traffic volume - that's just the economy. It has always been projected to increase and most likely will continue to do so into the future. There is nothing seen on the horizon that is going to cause a decline in airline traffic, automobile traffic or the population of the planet.
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If you build more airliners per year than runways...
 
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