Back to the Future?

[Don Desfosse]

And for all of you, like me, that REALLY prefer /v/ pilots over /t/ pilots, looks like the FAA is working on bringing /t/ to the RW....  Does that mean, once again, we're leading the FAA?  You be the judge!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2015/05/21/faa-new-texting-technology-nextgen/27733239/?hootPostID=c6f44f306ad945736a1820280ae7f13d

[Ira Robinson]

Wild

[Kyle Sanders]

I think we could completely move to this:

DEL voice and CPDL

GND Voice and CPDL

TWR Voice

APP/DEP voice

ENROUTE CPDL

[Ryan Geckler]

It's basically PDC clearances. They tried datalink for domestic flights and it's a ton of work in its current stage.

A lot of ARTCCs now have some version of PDC clearances, so I think we are pretty close to RW at this point.