The March runway incursion at Laguardia
My comment on this video. https://youtu.be/TYhksHOiPio?si=kdCIBqEuoVTGECgo I have driven various vehicles on many US airfields. At night, it is tough. My training was to always coordinate with AT and then visually look for traffic when crossing runways because controllers make mistakes. Transponders on ground vehicles is a fine idea, but many times, the vehicles are privately owned. Better to have a system that requires no competence from vehicle. I chased a contractor's truck across an airfield after instructing him to wait for me while I chained a gate. He ignored me. I recall when ASDE (Airport Surface Detection Equipment) was first installed. It failed often because it must distinguish between aircraft skin and ground (not sky). Water in liquid or solid form reflects RF, thence targets fail to have contrast (bad S/N). A much better system was proposed in an article in an IEEE journal: "RADAR on a chip" which has since...