Danny Sauer wrote:
> Nate wrote regarding 'Re: [EE] Mobile phone - GPS Interference' on Fri, Apr 07 at 12:40:
>> If everyone's willing to pay triple (or more) for a ticket than they do 
>> today, we can retire all the old aircraft, use fiber optics where ever 
>> possible, and shield the hell out of the aircraft's systems with modern 
>> technology, and we'll still have:
> 
> Since I don't fly, I'm willing to pay up to 8 times my current
> expenditure on airline tickets if it'll make things safer and shiny
> new.
> 
> --Danny, who enjoys multiplying by zero

Don't worry...

You're still paying for runways, towers, TRACONs, Centers, Flight 
Service Stations (recently "privatized" to LockMart -- think it'll be 
any cheaper?), Meteorologists, air traffic controllers, airways 
facilities engineering staff, and all of the managers for all of the 
above.

I'm sure I forgot a few.  Oh yeah, all those FAA RF certifcation labs 
and people watching over the avionics designers... they're in there 
somewhere too.  :-)

(Gotta love civilization, eh?)

Nate

(LockMart = Lockheed-Martin... "Your neighborhood source for discount 
military hardware!  Our prices are falling, along with our bombs!")
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