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Landing without explicit permission
ATC can't "forbid" anything really, they certainly can't enforce it - there is physically no way to stop an aircraft landing. Notwithstanding hostile intentions, in any sort of emergency ATC,...
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Are matching/duplicate marker names on a flight plan errors and/or occurrences most systems deal with?
Did someone submit an invalid flight plan that broke the system and could have broken any system? Is it a beginner coding mistake in our national infrastructure? Does this actually happen quite ...
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How Can I Know If An Airport/ Airfield Is Equipped To Operate During A Power Outage
For lighting at least, it will be listed in the AIP:
You can pretty much assume all aerodromes have backup power for stuff like ATC-equipment etc.
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Landing without explicit permission
There is the incident of Viktor Belenko who defected to the West and landed a MiG-25 at Hakodate, Japan. There is even a book ("MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko") about his ...
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Are matching/duplicate marker names on a flight plan errors and/or occurrences most systems deal with?
I'm afraid that this isn't an aviation question, it's more of an IT question and a hard one to answer as the systems involved are proprietary.
I am a software engineer myself, almost 15 years now, ...
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