Making air traffic control more efficient
ORLANDO, Fla.--If you've ever flown on a commercial airline, you've probably wondered how air traffic controllers do their jobs.
There's certainly lots to it, but increasingly, software from a company called Adacel is behind it all.
The company was originally Australian, but relocated here. It employs several dozen people to create software used by civilian aviation agencies like the FAA in the United States and its counterparts in other countries to do a better job managing the ever-growing amount of airplanes flying today.
I visited Adacel here Thursday as part of Road Trip 2008, my voyage … Read more