ATC + AI

Peter Ohtaki — February 1, 2025

If you were President, wouldn’t you direct the FAA by Executive Order to use AI to prevent plane crashes like what happened last week?

1. AI-driven Air Traffic Collision Warning system

2. AI re-routing air corridors for more separation

3. AI to warn and help pilots diagnose mechanical failure in seconds rather than minutes

Like Operation Warp Speed or Apollo, a program. to update our antiquated Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. Luckily, you just announced Stargate, the $500 B AI-infrastucture fund with VC Masayoshi Son, Larry Ellison, and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) so there’s your funding.

AI-driven Air Traffic Collision Warning system

Using AI to continuously monitor our air space for potential air traffic collision to give pilots a couple minutes warning. It would monitor aircraft transponder heading, speed, altitude and radar info as you can see in FlightAware, to predict and warn both aircraft of collision.

AI re-routing air corridors for more separation

The helicopter air corridor over the Potomac is only a few hundred feet under a DCA runway glidepath. I was appointed to the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals near SFO in 2016-17, and the BDEGA landing corridor is about 4,000 feet above my house. Separation is safety.

AI to diagnose mechanical failures for pilots

The Philadelphia Medevac jet appears to have had a massive mechanical failure. What if we used AI to analyze all the flight data recorder info collected by the NTSB to identify symptoms of fatal mechanical failure? What if AI could warn pilots of a mechanical failure in flight in seconds and provide corrective action?

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