Radar controllers know the frustration of seeing aircraft speed in ground speed, and having to calculate what airspeed would be appropriate when issuing a speed restriction.
A “report airspeed” would be a command issued by any radar station (approach, departure and center), and could be acknowledged in one tap by pilot (such as a ‘report airspeed’ acknowledgment), which would be handed back to ATC.
Unrealistic = Doesn’t happen in real life
I like it. The question is why isn’t airspeed already reported?
But there’s also no Report button IRL so get rid of that as well in that case…
Yes it is used all the time Dush…
I like where this is going.
IRL there is no ghosting, either. 😉
I guess so. 😂😏
Uh, it is used in real life.
My bad, sorry guys.
I like it 👍
MaxSez: “Report Air Speed”. LOL… No body Sez it was ez’y Controller, You do the math it interferes with my Approach workload and just cocks your GHOST gun, Fagetabouit
(Tower-Lucifer; Say again all after garble, click, garble, click, garble…Tower-Lucifer… on Final. Click, garble, click…)
How would you do the calculations then? IAS is a really complex thing to figure out, with parameters as winds, temperature, air pressure, altitude etc etc…
Having to press one button, same way you acknowledge any other thing doesn’t really interfere with your other tasks, and ultimately improves the service we can give you. :)
And in your example, you used tower freq. However tower isn’t a radar facility. I mean Center, Approach etc.
Your workload on that specific stage of flight isn’t really a lot.
(Oh, you shouldn’t really report final when ATC is online, that’s for unicom)
Or could we just add it to the radar in addition to GS and be done?
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That would be unrealistic. :) Airspeed isn’t broadcasted in any way, it is measured by the pitot tubes in the plane itself, analog.
True. But there are other things we have to deal with that are not unrealistic. If it helps out those of us who do not work in aviation why not?
MaxSez: get a life Mats it’s a pun, This is IF, why should I give you one more advantage and opportunity to screw the pooch. I say “No”…
Then explain AeroPeru 603
AFAIK aircraft transponder does broadcast this info or at least partial.
Caused by a mechanical failure since the static ports were blocked off. Maintenance fault yes but ultimately it was the captains fault for not doing a proper pre flight inspection. I don’t see the relevance here
In the CVR recordings, It is indicated that ATC receives airspeed as transponder data from AP603, which is erroneously parroted back to AP603 by ATC on request to confirm speed/alt.
Perhaps this was in error, but it still remains that this may be an IRL feature, at least; somewhere.