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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by fn-mote on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:46PM (#42943467)
> There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow

… 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.

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by eternityforest on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:23PM (#42956161)
Other large software rewrites have unit tests.

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.

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