Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown

Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by dharmab on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:05PM (#37473697)

W3W contains homonyms and words that are easily confused by non-native english speakers. Often within just a few KM. The latter is why ATC uses "niner", to avoid confusing "nine" and "nein".

Talk to someone deep in the GIS rabbit hole and you'll get a rant about how bad W3W is: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by tjohns on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:11PM (#37474382)

Also, "tree" for 3 and "fife" for 5.

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by WalterBright on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:15PM (#37475832)

Wernher von Braun polled his reports for whether the rocket was reliable or not. Each engineer replied "nein".

Von Braun reported that the rocket had six nines probability of success.

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