Comments on: Not all approaches are created equal http://www.gereports.com/not-all-approaches-are-created-equal/ Your source for what's happening at GE. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: david foster http://www.gereports.com/not-all-approaches-are-created-equal/comment-page-1/#comment-13613 david foster Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:12:28 +0000 http://www.gereports.com/?p=3602#comment-13613 Airports also have a very fundamental "concrete" capacity problem that technologies like these cannot by themselves overcome--runway capacity. A single runway can safely handle only X flights per hour, where X is a function of aircraft type mix, weather, runway condition, etc. In almost all cases, construction of additional runways is stopped or greatly delayed by rabid environmentalists, furious NIMBYs, payoff-hungry politicians, etc etc. The electronics is good, but in many cases will only shift the bottleneck unless the runway problem is addressed. Airports also have a very fundamental "concrete" capacity problem that technologies like these cannot by themselves overcome–runway capacity. A single runway can safely handle only X flights per hour, where X is a function of aircraft type mix, weather, runway condition, etc.

In almost all cases, construction of additional runways is stopped or greatly delayed by rabid environmentalists, furious NIMBYs, payoff-hungry politicians, etc etc.

The electronics is good, but in many cases will only shift the bottleneck unless the runway problem is addressed.

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