Hi Everyone!
A new Web site, http://www.LiveATC.net, is changing the pace of aviation news. The Web site is the creation of Dave Pascoe, a Boston-area Internet site executive, radio enthusiast and pilot who's melded his hobbies into a worldwide network that allows visitors to listen in on pilot-tower transmissions live or after-the-fact.
The site played a major role in the Buffalo crash last week when the radioed conversation exchange between the Buffalo tower and a plane nearing the airport radio beacon known as "Klump" was captured just after the crash, and was quickly posted to the LiveATC site.Because they were captured by a network of amateur radio and aviation enthusiasts, they aired far sooner than any federal agency would typically release a recording or transcript related to last week's crash that killed 49 people aboard the plane and one in the home the plane hit. The recordings show there was no mayday call. They heard other nearby pilots discussing ice on their wings.
After nearly six years in operation, the site now monitors air traffic at between 230 and 250 airports in the United States, Japan, South Africa, Europe and Australia.Pascoe has organized the computers that support his site to group the flood of incoming recordings in 30-minute blocs. After hearing about the 10:20 p.m. Buffalo crash, he went back to the 10 p.m. segment and chained together audio from different receivers, editing out dead space. It was on the air within hours.
My question is a matter of translation. Does this Web site offer insight to the possibility that soon the federal government will no longer have control over what media sources or average individuals know about aviation communication and traffic? It is known that the creation of the World Wide Web opened endless unpredictable possibilities to our world, and that the evolution of the Internet is both inevitable and unstoppable? And, finally, are we seeing that the government cannot control even the most major bits of news from being shared without their consent?
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