There are thousands of air control towers around the world but between them there are lengthy gaps. No radio contact makes flight control in congested airspace difficult and unsafe.
An airspace positioning system is needed between control towers, this would allow multiple aircraft to share airspace less than 5km while keeping them apart.
If fire fighting aircraft are fitted with an aircraft positioning system this would allow more than one aircraft to share airspace and allow for fires to be put out faster.
An APS would be a box consisting of a radar and an independent gps linked to a chip containing virtual control tower software which would keep track of each aircraft’s position and each aircraft’s projected flight path displayed on a screen with audible reminders.
Each aircraft would transmit and receive each other’s gps signal, work to spread apart rules as defined in the VCT software and set by the aviation industry.
It could be built in to any existing piloted aircraft, remote piloted aircraft and fully automated drones.
In the future it could be expanded to commercial aircraft and even to satellites.
