He is one of the people few even realise exist – a flesh-and-blood worker in the engine room of the data industry. What he has to say is explosive.
A few years ago, Cornman found a way around the problem. In the U.S., commercial flights served by air-traffic control—some twenty-seven thousand a day—are required to transmit their position, altitude, and velocity. By tracking those transmissions and the planes’ motions over time, a new program that Cornman developed at NCAR can create a moment-by-moment snapshot of turbulence as it’s happening. The F.A.A. is planning to test the program this year. Together with NCAR’s earlier software, Sharman’s forecasting models, and data from radar arrays on the ground, this system could start to give pilots the advance warning they need. “That is the future for me,” Cornman said. “All these operations get integrated in a seamless network. The pilots don’t have to talk to air-traffic control and say, ‘Should I go up or down?’ They just get a display with a color-coded flight track on it. And they see that it looks better a few thousand feet up.”
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