GPS Tracking ROI Above The Ground — For All And Not The Few

Here’s a site that will be well worth your time exploring.  If you are interested in aircraft and flying … as I am, or if you just are forced to be a passenger on airplanes from time to time and hate the darn things:

 

It’s certainly no secret we could do better in the field of aviation safety. It’s also almost a secret just how poorly we … all countries of the world …actually track aircraft in flight. The world of aeronautical tracking, whether to gain the simple, provable benefits of proving the vehicles are used properly to the esoteric but often indispensable area of crash investigation is still stuck back in the late 1930 … with analog radar signals tracking aircraft )in some areas of the world) and not much else.

Appareo has a line of products to monitor day-to-day performance and they also have taken on the big “Beltway Bandits” also make the costs of flight data recorders astronomical (mainly because the engineering hasn’t changed in 30 years) and out of reach of all but the large aircraft operators.

If your son or daughter “bought the farm” in a smaller aircraft, what would it be worth to learn the cause and prevent future tragedies. Don’t play around with this information like the state of Minnesota did with 7 years of data that told them where and how the bridge would fail.

Read.

Heed.

Do something!

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