London City is the first major airport to control air traffic via a digital tower

I knew if I looked at the comments they would be full of complaints and criticisms from the old guard who think that human eyes are better than high def cameras with data overlaid on the video feed, and who don't know anything about fibre optic networks and the redundancy involved.

None of you disappointed, especially the guy who thinks Tesla autopilot is more dangerous than a human driver.

I look forward to the day the entire aviation ecosystem is automated and human error is removed.

I'm sure that will enrage you old timers.

Why did they do this? Is it safer? Is it cheaper? What's their reasoning for this?

If all today's aviation systems were bound to fail, would you fly? Do you think that people who designed the system didn't think about links going down? What if power goes down in a regular tower? What if... what if... radar goes down in a busy terminal environment. That one I can answer having been there for quite a few years. But you don't really want to hear the answer...

the first halting stupid step in a newly revealed stupid idea, is a stupid step and a stupid idea.

I trust the eyes and reflexes of an experienced tower controller and a ground controller. No microchip computer program that some folks say is a good idea, an advancement, is either usually.

This won't be an issue. No, not at all. All these doomsayers... The technology is "bleeding edge"...

What could possibly go wrong?! :)

I'll be expecting the regular pilots to have their swiveling heads and eyeballs on an even longer stick, even more!

Presumably, this is to save money (why else?) by having controllers handling multiple towers. Hmmm..., what could go wrong with that?

I bet there will be a spike in problems at that airport in he next few years. Or its network will go down or something. Something like that always happens when you put new technology to work.

When the system goes down, now what?! Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Fool-proof method would be to have people physically there and talking on a simple radio.