| ▲ | lxgr 3 hours ago |
| From the very first line of that article: > The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety. |
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| ▲ | water-data-dude 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sure, but the tool needs to get information from the communication systems, and if it's badly written maybe it could overload some system components. That's just a scenario off the top of my head, it could be a lot of stuff. Plugging something new into an old, complicated system isn't risk free. |
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| ▲ | johnbellone 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That would make me feel better if we could trust a damn word from this administration and I wasn’t on a plane waiting to land. |
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| ▲ | winternett 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's also the corporations that are not exactly telling the truth & funding the administrations, just FTR... The destructive & arrogant behaviors won't be reigned in properly if we all fail to recognize that, just FTR. | |
| ▲ | LPisGood 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The good news is this outage is not impacting approach or ground control so you’re safe. | | |
| ▲ | ultrarunner 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | John Wayne, a class C (the approach mentioned above) isn't even letting VFRs go. If it's actually limited to ARTCC I don't know why that would be. | |
| ▲ | erickhill 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Except some airports haven't enough free gates for disembarking as planes that wanted to take off were denied. So they tried to go back to their gates. As a result some planes in the air are being diverted to less-busy airports. | | | |
| ▲ | johnbellone 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thanks, bud - very reassuring that some minimum bid contract shop built something on a “secure” network they can’t even keep up. |
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| ▲ | boringg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Until it got out of its sandbox… |
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| ▲ | bmitc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If only routes didn't affect air safety. |
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| ▲ | xgulfie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If it's working correctly, anyway |
