… because of mismanagement, just like other large software rewrites that you are probably familiar with.
It’s the same problem - updating a complex system - except there’s no other vendor you can switch to.
ATC has human operators and people are non-deterministic and non repeatable and you can't just run a few tests and conclude it's fine.
The issues you're trying to stop may only occur once a month globally across all airports or something, and only be noticed once a year.
Money only does so much to improve your life. Stress is a way to shorten your life. Long term chronic stress literally makes you ill in ways that medicine can’t fix.
- Allow people to retire after a decade rather than several decades of work
- Allow (or require) people to only work part-time (eg 2 days a week, or 5 days of 2 hours a day, or...) while still earning a full time equivalent salary
- Allow a work day to be 10mins on, 50mins resting for every hour (requiring 6x as many staff), while paying as if the full hour was work
- Pay for therapy, stress-management lessons, etc.
- Pay for a professional cleaner at home, a part-time chef or lots of restaurant/takeaway meals, or whatever else helps to minimise the amount of work you need to do outside the job
- Probably other ideas that haven't come into my mind in the two minutes I've spent on the subject of how more money can help fight issues caused by stress
Tell me you haven’t worked in aerospace without telling me you haven’t worked in aerospace. There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow because the risk of change is lives lost. At some point, the risk of not changing means more lives lost… and that’s when things will change.