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Speaker 1: Some good news, some new kit to make life better.

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Speaker 1: The government has switched on some new satellite dishes which

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Speaker 1: we are meant to save us all from fog delays

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Speaker 1: at the airport. There's a new facility in Southend and

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Speaker 1: that's going to work along with another station in Australia,

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Speaker 1: and it makes GPS accurate to within a meter in

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Speaker 1: this part of the world, which means planes can fly,

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Speaker 1: can land and can take off in fog. Chris Pink

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Speaker 1: is the Land Information Minister and joins me. Now, hello,

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Speaker 1: Chris good So does this mean my plane will no

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Speaker 1: longer be delayed by the fog and Auckland airport.

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Speaker 2: Well, it should certainly reduce the number of delays and

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Speaker 2: cancelations as a result of and weather, whether it's spoiled

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Speaker 2: or other restrictive visibility. So we're really excited if that

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Speaker 2: makes you more able to get around the country without

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Speaker 2: those destructions. In think search and rescue as well. There's

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Speaker 2: a whole heap of different applications that's going to help out,

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Speaker 2: even just in aviation, and then you've got a whole

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Speaker 2: heap of other uses for it as well. So that's

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Speaker 2: really exciting.

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Speaker 1: No, but the planes right up and down the country

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Speaker 1: where there are fogs. That's a direct cost of productivity.

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Speaker 1: So if we get an increase in there, that's good

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand. And what sort of increase in productivity,

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Speaker 1: increase in the number of flights that we will go

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Speaker 1: in fog will we get.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's difficult to know the exact number because

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Speaker 2: the technology is improving all the time. And look the

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Speaker 2: difference between what you've cited as a meter accuracy and

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Speaker 2: what it actually might be in some cases down to

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Speaker 2: ten centimeters would you believe could make all the difference

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Speaker 2: between the flight being able to land safely or not.

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Speaker 2: So if the technology improves over time and we get

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Speaker 2: refined positions with various repeat stations around New Zealand and Australia,

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Speaker 2: the possibilities just become endless.

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Speaker 1: Well, I understand that er Young has already modeled this

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Speaker 1: and said sixty five percent drop in the number of

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Speaker 1: flights canceled.

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Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, that'll be incredible, isn't it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean any kind of change, like you say, from a

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Speaker 2: productivity point of view, and not having people sitting around

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Speaker 2: calling their heels in the airport all so, just on

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Speaker 2: a human level. You know, to have that assume t

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Speaker 2: that you can get around much more confidently and suddenly

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Speaker 2: it's going to provide a huge booing.

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Speaker 1: So what is the cost? How much did this piece

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Speaker 1: of kit cost?

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Speaker 2: I don't actually have a breakdown for the individual bits

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Speaker 2: of kit, but I mean certainly a serious.

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Speaker 1: Well as a project. As a project, how much does

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Speaker 1: this project costs?

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Speaker 2: I don't actually have it for in front of me,

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Speaker 2: which is remissively but what I will say is that

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Speaker 2: I give to the credit where it's drue. It's been

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Speaker 2: a cost, it's been committed to over successive governments. You know,

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Speaker 2: these are not long these these are long run investments

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Speaker 2: that need to be made. So the fact that the

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Speaker 2: last government picked up our previous week in the sect

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Speaker 2: we can I think this is good things about the

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Speaker 2: value of it to New Zealand Inkin that doesn't need

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Speaker 2: to be a particularly political method.

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Speaker 1: Therefore, very good Chris pink Land Information Minister, and I

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Speaker 1: thank you for your time. Of course we are talking

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Speaker 1: greatly about financial management. But unfortunately Chris can't tell me

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Speaker 1: how much this piece of kit cost, which is a

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