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Central data bank so we're getting more, not less? we're getting pretty much, but still, now you realize just how great the demand is. let me start with les. >> well, you know, i go across the north atlantic quite a bit, a system, adsb a ground-based system through a satellite. we're always tracked. this is amazing that this whole in this part of the world could provide this system. this technology is already there. my airline reeves constant data about almost every aspect of altitude, air speed. almost everything. location is never an issue, where the airplane is. >> tim, this black box, do y...

That doesn't exist anymore. as a safety inspector, i had to justify financially why it is that it's good to do this. >> this already exists on the north atlantic. that technology is already being utilized and has to be utilized. of course, it's regulated, but it doesn't make sense to me that it would cost that much. >> i fly say across the atlantic. i can't use any wi-fi. but if i fly from new york to l.a. i can use wi-fi. there's still this, in my view, this view it may be damaging to the plane's radar system, but there's been no evidence of that. is it not time that we wi-fied all planes for...

As a safety >> this already exists on the north atlantic. that technology is already being utilized and has to be utilized. of course, it's regulated, but it doesn't make sense to me that it would cost that much. >> i fly say across the atlantic. i can't use any wi-fi. but if i fly from new york to l.a. i can use wi-fi. there's still this, in my view, this view it may be damaging to the plane's radar system, but there's been no evidence of that. is it not time that we wi-fied all planes for this kind of thing, where if one passenger had been able to send a message to somebody? >> the technolog...

Location. i wouldn't worry too much about that. that is common in the system and there are ways to control that. >> it's news to a lot of us that are not pilots or faa chiefs of staff that there are times that people don't know about. >> they are just position reports every 15 minutes through a third party that communicates back to ground control. we don't have radar coverage over that part of the world. in the pacific, we have adsb, a satellite uplink down to the ground. there's a better tracking in the pacific ocean. it's where we want to go and we haven't put that infrastructure in yet. >> ...

Implementation process. it's called adsb. automated dependent surveillance broadcast. it is gps based. it does update every second. it's good for basically ground to ground. we can always track the movement of the airplane. it is intended to replace radar under this nextgen program. it's just slow in implementation. had this airplane had that system on it, as long as it wasn't disabled, because it does use parts of the transponder for sending information out, as long as the system wasn't disabled, then we would have definitely had better tracking of this information -- or this aircraft rather ...