alt Hacker NewsThe ground radio and radar stations for enroute operations are often not near where the controllers are. Voice and radar data have to be transmitted around. Airport radio and radar can be primarily local, but enroute cannot.
The ground radio and radar stations for enroute operations are often not near where the controllers are. Voice and radar data have to be transmitted around. Airport radio and radar can be primarily local, but enroute cannot.
Seems like a bad design though to put both on the same network. Voice is relatively low bandwidth but more important. Also voice is typically more localized, a controller in SFO isn't talking to an airplane in NYC.
Do we know that voice and radar were lost though? How did the flights in the air land? I thought the thing that broke was the handover between different regions/spaces/controllers?