Re:FAA says computer failure was caused by 2 contractors who...
by gojomo on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:05AM
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You're right that the main challeges are political & bureaucratic inertia. That shouldn't stop us from honestly & plainly describing its core, & the industry's state-of-the-art for similar systems that don't have the legacy system's encumbrances.
The "globally agreed-upon data format" is essentially text blobs with a standard set of abbreviations, that assist search/filtering by flight-paths & planned waypoints. It seems to be a mere 150MB a year.
The inherently "move slowly" modernization effort can only be helped by a clearer outline of what's now possible. This is too important to prematurely dumb-down brainstorming ideas, based on low-expectations for the adoption process!
And a modern architecture for distributed updates & reliability could trivially mimic the old system's pilot-visible outputs, to remain familiar to tenured personnel.
The "globally agreed-upon data format" is essentially text blobs with a standard set of abbreviations, that assist search/filtering by flight-paths & planned waypoints. It seems to be a mere 150MB a year.
The inherently "move slowly" modernization effort can only be helped by a clearer outline of what's now possible. This is too important to prematurely dumb-down brainstorming ideas, based on low-expectations for the adoption process!
And a modern architecture for distributed updates & reliability could trivially mimic the old system's pilot-visible outputs, to remain familiar to tenured personnel.