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System called adsb, automatic dependent surveillance broadcast. you're giving information that's sending directly from an airplane to a satellite and back down to a ground station that reports it. just similar to a radar situation. so air traffic control constantly knows where you are. and that system is available in the north atlantic. >> what do you mean from company to air traffic control? >> well, adsb is an air traffic control function where acars is more developed as a company-type function. in other words, taking engine data, other parameters at the company and dispatch dat that that th...

Necessarily lengthy, the faa only wants to put these kinds of devices on aircraft after they're fully vetted. and the implementation path for the total adsb network is required in all aircraft by 2020. >> can the adsb that you're describing be dismantled? if someone who's a bad actor wishes to shut it down, do they have the opportunity to do so? >> i think that's up to the faa. i see no reason at all why the system which we use couldn't be hard wired so it could not be shut down from the cockpit if in fact thats with a the problem in 370. >> is there any opposition to the programming methodolo...

System. the augmented system goes over global star, and the result is, you can continuously track one second at a time for continuously across any trip and know exactly where an airplane is, that is invaluable, and in the case of 370, it would have told us whether the plane turned. whether the plane continued straight, and when it stopped emitting all together. >> is the government delaying the implementation of the product that you want to bring to mark sunset. >> they are not. we are in the process of certifying this new product at this time. that certification process is necessarily lengthy...

Weeks, everybody calls with an example of saying, if i can track my iphone, why can't they find this plane? i said the other day, i flu home on jet blue across the country a couple days ago, watching cnn. if i can watch cnn in realtime, why can't we find the plane? you think you have a solution, what is it? >> the technology does exist and there's a next gen system that the faa is mandating which has a component called adsb. it allows you to track aircraft from a signal that is emitted from the belly of each airplane to ground infrastructure, the challenge with adsb is that a it's not rolled o...

During the last few years. it's been tough times at global star, that's over, a new constellation has been repopulated. and we are happy to be back offering services. >> so here's the question that i ask, is the market going to sort this out? we are all so frustrated, and i have to tell you, on my radio program for the last three weeks, everybody calls with an example of saying, if i can track my iphone, why can't they find this plane? i said the other day, i flu home on jet blue across the country a couple days ago, watching cnn. if i can watch cnn in realtime, why can't we find the plane? yo...