Wide Area Augmentation System

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to support the Waas, brother.

I'm going to anoint you an honorary Kiwi next time we meet, Graham.

Well, Billy Noonan certainly looked after me when I first got put into the front row against a guy called Dennis Monty, who was about 6'7", 6'8", and about, ooh, today he'd be about 120-something kilos.

Okay.

The Waas are travelling well, and it's a large way due to the work current owner, Mark Robson, CEO Cameron George, we had on the show yesterday, and the back office team.

It's no surprise that the successful teams have a well-run back office.

It's absolutely Kiwi Andy.

And my concern is that the push for another New Zealand team is on the back of the Waas' recent success.

It is not a guarantee that another franchise will operate as well.

For me, I like the idea of a Toowoomba-based team.

It does, and you're right.

I mean, they had no Jacob Saifidi for, what, 60 minutes of that game, and they still pushed the Waas right down to the diamond.

Well, they were up 16-0.

Yeah, and it went

So

I'd be, yeah, I'm surprised the price they're paying, to be fair.

Like, I think the Waas should be favourites, but I think the price that the Knights are paying a little bit over is for me.

Are you going to the game? Yeah.

GPS approaches down to minimums that previously required instrument landing systems costing millions of dollars per runway.

Wide Area Augmentation System, WAAS, corrections that bring lateral and vertical accuracy down to under three meters.

Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast, ADS-B, which uses GPS position data to build the traffic picture your controller is working from and that your display is showing you.

Terrain awareness systems that use GPS to cross-reference database elevation data.

Now, Newcastle have a bit of a strike, so what do the WAs need to fix this weekend?

Yeah, I mean, the Waas criticism's always been around their edge defence and it's going to be such a big battle this weekend because these two teams, just a couple of weeks ago, you almost think that the Knights probably had the Warriors if it wasn't for Sofidi getting sent from the field for that hit on Luke Lali'i.

So, yeah, I think defensively their edges will, you know, be asked a lot of questions again with the way that the Newcastle Knights attack.

You know they like to shift the ball side to side and give a lot of that early ball to Kalamponga out the back, but So yeah, if it was one answer, I think defensively for the Warriors, you know they can grind, but also their edges, yeah, for me.

Tracy on text.

"Hey, when I went to use my phone this morning, in the corner it said, 'Up the Waas'." Yeah, this is brilliant.

One New Zealand.

Um, yeah, look at your phone if you're a One New Zealand customer.

I'm a Spark New Zealand customer.

Mine just says Spark NZ.

But if you're a One New Zealand customer, top left, as I understand it, it'll say, "Up the Waas." Love it.

Love it.

This is probably the game of the round.

It's the Waas and the Finns.

It's going to be going.

The Waas look to be faltering a bit, but the game at Go Media Stadium sold out in 12 minutes.

That's going to be probably an extra person for them, boys.

Who

Dylan Wateni-Zelezniak remains sidelined with a collarbone injury and Chans Nicol Klukstad has been named on the wing with Tain Tuolpiki at fullback.

Unchanged 1-17 for the Waas with former Broncos Stacey Waka, Mili Hufanga, Gail Broughton and Daneta Nuasala named to take on their old side.

Skipper Api Nicholls has been named in the reserves as has Leishon Albert-Jones who suffered a leg injury early in the season.

And CTE, CTE is the disease that will not go away when it comes to contact sports.

Your panel-mount GPS, your EFB, your phone sitting in the cup holder.

The ILS approaches you flew for decades are being supplemented, and in some cases replaced by WAAS LPV procedures with decision altitudes comparable to Category 1 ILS, the moving map that shows you exactly where you are, 24 hours a day, anywhere on the planet, at no cost to you.

That whole chain of decisions leads back to a Pacific night in 1983.

The investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization was meticulous.