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Broadly speaking, if you are flying a jet airliner, you do not see any other aeroplanes because the systems keep you that far apart. These new systems are designed to let aeroplanes fly safely but nevertheless much closer to one another. That is a key area of safety concern. We have to get right the interface between the human beings on board an aeroplane, the aeroplane and the routers, and only pilots can have that input. There will be some differences in the worlds of air traffic controllers and so on but, broadly speaking, their loads will be lightened because the routings of the aeroplanes will have been predetermined in setting up the system.