Is Free Flight Now A Quixotic Exercise?
Against this backdrop of gloom, does spending money to update cockpits, or invest anything other than mandatory equipment when specifying new airplane avionics make any sense? Wingman believes it does, but with important conditions. In previous comments on this subject, Wingman has said that government could create an incentive program that would be self-financing, using ” benefit cash equivalents” (BCEs) resulting from future airspace efficiencies to pay for the financing needed to make the avionics’ investment. (See “Why Guaranteed Loans Are Needed For Free Flight Avionics,” as well as, “More Can Be Gained From GAIN, and “How To Get Users To Invest In Free Flight Avionics.”) Actually, as strange as this proposition may seem, Wingman believes that while the timing hardly seems opportune, a bold move that inspires the creative imagination of American enterprise may be successful if sold to the Congress and public in a convincing way. Here are five suggestions for doing just that: Begin
