Atc: Bluestreak 72 say credit card number, exp. date and code.
BS72: 4733184646385, 02/2023, 963
Atc: Ok vor is powered proceed direct and enter hold
BS72: wilco
Atc: Your card declined, vor is now off
BS72: Ok what‘s your paypal handle?
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Believe it or not this was actually a proposal for funding Galileo (selling decryption keys for flying GPS approaches).
Peter wrote:
Believe it or not this was actually a proposal for funding Galileo (selling decryption keys for flying GPS approaches).
So would the EU then have banned (e.g.) Garmin from using other sources of GPS data?
Yes
Peter wrote:
Believe it or not this was actually a proposal for funding Galileo (selling decryption keys for flying GPS approaches).
Well, someone eventually has to pay for the lunch. For instance, we take rescue operations for granted today, but the way it works is the one doing the rescue get payed by the one being rescued. On the roads this is so implicit and hidden in the insurance, so we don’t even see it. Being a member of some rescue organisation also helps on the practical side for simpler mishaps like engine failure or blown tire etc. At sea, this is a bit different, or rather, more obvious. If someone has an engine failure, and you tow him back to safety, you are entitled to a percentage of the material value of what has been rescued. That percentage could be 100%, but it’s decided by arbitration (I think the english word is) and is dependent on several circumstances (actual danger, how well you rescued him, how much you put at stake, the danger you put yourself into, what the outcome would be if you didn’t rescue him and so on). Rescuing human lives does not alone entitle you to such salary by the way. It’s all rather brutal and primitive seen with modern “nanny state taking care of us” eyes, but no one has yet come up with a better and more efficient system.
Besides, selling decryption keys, isn’t that essentially what the state does when collecting those IFR en-route taxes and landing fees. It’s just that the concept of keys is irrelevant for the collecting of those taxes, much in the same manner you pay insurance to a insurance company, and not directly to the one rescuing you on land.
Peter wrote:
Whoever owns the frequency can charge for the use of it.
For receiving!? I really doubt that.
Peter wrote:
That said, VORs and ILSs are still being installed and so must still be manufactured.
They are. I saw a brochure for brand new VOR and DME equipment, it comes in a standard 19 inch telecoms/server rack with a UPS, the transmitter itself, the monitoring equipment etc.
Here’s one: http://pdf.aeroexpo.online/pdf/mopiens-inc/brochure/171103-1093.html
