“We’re going to introduce this strategic coordination of air traffic at high altitude. When the airplanes are en route, we’ll be deconflicting the projected trajectories from each aircraft, and we’ll be providing [updated] arrival times.” Source: Federal Aviation Administration senior certification advisor and technical pilot Steve Fulton, in comments made as he told the FAA/European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s annual safety conference in Chantilly, Va. that the plan for its new air traffic management software will be a “bounded introduction,” limited to air traffic at 24,000 feet and above.
