Talk:Flight progress strip

I've added to this article and done some major surgery. I hope the original authors are not offended. I've tried to generalise it somewhat also. As I'm involved in ATC in the UK, there is some possibility that I've used UK-only terms - please feel free to purge them if I have.BaseTurnComplete 21:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


 * The concern I have is that there's no mention of the use of flight strips in procedural IFR - e.g. in parts of the world where there's no radar. I'm especially thinking of the northern part of the Edmonton, Canada FIR, where there simply is no radar and many aircraft are not equipped with up-to-date equipment. I don't know how oceanic FIRs handle traffic these days either - I suspect they use a computerized setup, but 15 years ago it was all procedural with strips. Lots of fun. --Charlene.fic 01:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll add something about this. In UK ATC training they used to have a saying "The radar hides a multitude of sins; the strips can predict the future".  More relevant to en route control than terminal or tower, but still a revealing little saying.  btw Shanwick Oceanic control has computerised strips; it was one of the first centres to go computerised back in the eighties.BaseTurnComplete 21:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * There's an article here: Procedural control which obviously is closely related to flight strips!

I have a couple of strips from one of my IFR flights I got from a controller. If anyone thinks this would help the article I could scan one and post it here. Since it has my actual N number I'd want to photoshop that down to the last 3 characters of the callsign. Not sure if that violates any guidelines though. Any thoughts on if this is a good idea? Skywayman 02:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

In the 4th para the link to digital flight strips was deleted last year. I have not seen the deleted page, but suspect it was worthwhile since paper strips are being phased out in favour of 'glass strips' viewed on the computer display. Who knows how to resurrect the page? Rleir (not logged in) 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.21.46 (talk) 02:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I restored the digital flight strips part to this page as I have neither found the digital flight strips article where this part was supposedly moved to nor any other references to the digital flight strips on wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute or continue writing here! Xfects (talk) 11:28, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Whoever wrote the previous "digital flight strips" section is clearly not a controller, because we don't use corporate business terms like "collaborative system" and "workflow engine models." I'm guessing it was written by some company that sells digital flight strip systems. I deleted it and replaced it with a single sentence in the main section which I think says the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.15.108.152 (talk) 02:18, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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