| Pilot/Air-Traffic-Controller Operations [PATCO]
This is a brief introduction to design and building of PATCO Centers, management of the centers and 4 thousand [k] pilot/air-traffic-controllers [PATC] (being trained at and operating from these centers) or from sub-centers, their homes or aboard piloted autogyros, called Master Chief Super Hawks [MCSH] (with a pilot and a, possibly trainee, copilot, aboard each MCSH). RDL' s current plans (as of September 2009) is to design and build 16m pilotless, Gavin Hawk autogyros and 44 pilotless (nuclear powered) Mother Hawks [MHn], in teams of 1.02 for each of the 40k-square-mile, designated areas), plus six fossil fuelled [FF] Mother Hawks [MH]) in one-fifth countries of the six Continents, and major islands, of the World. This would support 46 designated areas, totaling 1,840m square miles, with up to 8m pilotless (up to 10 passengers each) Gavin Hawks, ie ~51m people, in the air, at any one time. One PATCO center is planned for each designated area, ie 50 PATCOs in all.
It will take several years to develop and build the Gavin Hawk and Mother Hawks. In the event, as is likely to be the case, establishment of designated areas, building PATCOs and pilotless Gavin Hawks exceed the supply of pilotless Mother Hawks built, and licensed to fly over the designated areas, the design and production of piloted MCSH will be used to manage and control flocks of Gavin Hawks. One Mother Hawk is required, at any one time, for each designated area. Whereas, one MCSH is required, at any one time, for up to four flocks, of 50 to 2k Gavin Hawks, each, aloft at a time, carrying, on average, six passengers each, totaling up-to-12k passengers. - Each PATCO Center will control one Mother Hawks (out of a team of 1.02 Mother Hawks attached to a designated area), in the air at any one time. While aloft, each Mother Hawk controls (and protects) a designated area. The areas are permanently assigned a code, based on the name of the country and a roman number. For example, two areas are required in the United Kingdom, ie UKI and UKII. Each pilotless(zero-to-10 passenger) Gavin Hawk, originating in a designated area (eg Gavin Hawk) to take off, from a point within UKI, during a 15 minute period of a designated hour of the day, and join a flock. Each flock is named: eg Alpha (a Greek letter designated as 9 am, chosen from the 24 hours in any one day) and a number 1 through 4, to identify the 15 minute segment of the hour. Alpha 3 would be scheduled to take off and join flock Alpha 3 between 9:30 am and 9:45, departing at 9:45 am. Each flock has a general destination, under the control of a Mother Hawk (or MCSH, actually flying with flock Alpha 3). Under the pilot/controller, individual Gavin Hawks can leave flock Alpha 3, and land, upon arrival near their own designated destination. In most cases, each Gavin Hawk is assigned to a single flock for its entire voyage. However, if necessary, one or more Gavin Hawks could be detached from their flock to join other flocks headed to other destinations. Or, even switch to several other flocks, en route, even though the other flocks may be under the control of other Mother Hawks, which may also be under the control of other PATCOs, or located in other areas.
- Initially, before Mother Hawks are normally in operation, or temporarly not in operation, in all designated areas of a country where Gavin Hawk are operating, pilotless MCSHs will each control up-to-four flocks of up-to-500 Gavin Hawks (in the same manner as a Mother Hawk) under the direction of a ground-based PATCO. Or, piloted MCSHs can manage flocks not under the control of Mother Hawks or by a pilotless MSCH controlled by a PATCO.
- Once Mother Hawks are available, and reliable, aloft 24/7 in their designated areas; the roles of MCSH will be adjusted. Most likely, they will only be flown with their flocks, when necessary, to support or back up Mother Hawks, or when the flock is flying in, or entering into, a designated area which does not yet have a Mother Hawk actually operating.
- Two PATCOs are necessary in the UK, one in UKI and the other in UKII. Each of the MCSHs, in turn, controls from one-to-four flocks of up-to-500 pilotless Gavin Hawk, eg Alpha 3. On a typical day, with 100 flocks originating in UKI, with an average of 300 Gavin Hawks per flock, carrying an average of six passengers each, would carry a total of 180k people in 30k Gavin Hawks, lead by 100 MCSHs with 200 pilots on board. For a two week period, with each Gavin Hawk, ie flock, 300 MCSHs are required and 300 pilots and 300 copilots/trainees are required. Once Mother Hawks are available, only three are required for each area, and this lowers the need for MCSH and pilots (on board) by at least 66.7%, to 100 MSCH, 100 pilots and 100 copilot/trainees in UKI.
- The role of PATCOs is to: a) recruit and train PATCs, b) plan and control takeoff, landing and flight of pilotless aircraft and (piloted) MCSHs and their control and protection of flocks of pilotless Gavin Hawk (including takeoff, flight and landings), c) management and control of operations, d) plan, control and manage the design and building of additional PATCOs , and e) recruitment and training of the operating team of the additional PATCOs, until capable of independent operation. Each and every Gavin Hawk and MCSH is equipped an autopilot which can be used without human assistance to take off vertically, rendezvous with an assigned flock (eg Alpha 3), follow an assigned route in the air in company of the rest of the flock, detach (when instructed) to join another flock, or (as instructed) land vertically at a preassigned point.
- Autopilots are also able to avoid collision of its Gavin Hawk (or MCSH) with other Hawks, flying aircraft, ground-based features or structures such as hills, mountains, buildings, bridges, towers and especially power lines (or, conceivably, missiles) without the help of PATCs. Programming of autopilots is maintained by PATCOs, as appropriate for their area, on a daily basis, and distributed to autopilots as soon as changes are calculated or learned about, and they can be reached, via the Internet, Mother Hawks or MCSHs.
- The role of Mother Hawks and MCSH are to observe all conditions and activity below them, or nearby (including flocks), to detect changes and danger from any source, and to maintain contact with PATCO to transmit current information. They also receive communications from PATCO to relay to MCSH and Gavin Hawk to instruct them of appropriate changes, computed to avoid danger and maintain safe speed, routing and traveling of the flocks. Very short term changes, observed by Mother Hawks or MCSHs can be relayed to Autopilots directly, for immediate action.
- PATCs can work in a PATCO, a sub-center, at their home or on board a piloted MCSH. Normally, the choice of location is determined by the individual PATCs, subject to approval of the PATCO of the region, and, of course, the availability of communications facilities at the location. Most PATCs, if given his/her choice, would probably choose to work from his/her home, especially a GaviHas. One requirement is that each PATC team is responsible for up-to-four flocks (eg Alpha 3) while those flocks are in the air, and that requires a team of at least two PATCs that work together and both be available, without interruption, during the entire flight of the flocks assigned. GaviHas locations are favored by husband-wife PATC teams of GaviHas residents (DS for singletons and childless couples and DH for families of three-to-six family members).
- RDL plans to study the advantages of specific locations for PATCO, sub-centres and homes, specifically for use by PATC teams. Quality and reliability of communications, to control and manage Mother Hawks, MCSH, and flocks of Gavin Hawk, are likely to be important. It will also consider the advantage, if any, of GaviHas with a Carriage accessory, to allow quick and inexpensive relocation, to adjust to changes in traditional flock flight paths. We may have a system of small "micro" airports at Mini-Utopia-Villages, before vertically-capable Gavin Hawks are universal. In this case, a GaviHas based PATCO sub-center (with a small observation tower) could be used to operate more like conventional air traffic controllers. Once the Gavin Hawks are upgraded, at least accessorized with battery-powered rotor power, to take off and land vertically, the GaviHas' s tower could be removed. Then, it would be the same as any other GaviHas PATC's home.
- Project 7 has been added to support design and building of Amalric III, especially in convoys. (See the section called: Amalric III [AIII] as aircraft carriers), which may be used as PATCOs stationed mid-ocean or mid-sea.
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