Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra...
by iberator on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:39AM
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what do you mean. a lot of poor people fly as well. I won't would even risk to say that poor people fly more often. For example migrant workers flying lets say Bulgaria-Ireland every few months
Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra...
by ethin on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:12PM
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I think what readthenotes1 is trying to say is what I was hinting at in my comment: this administration cannot be trusted to do this properly or in the service of actually making the ATC system better. They're instead doing it because the 1% says that modern == better (which for a safety-critical system is usually not actually true). The proper thing this administration should be doing is to do this as a failover at first but keep the existing ATC system running until the new system is just as safe and as capable as the original, but I get the feeling they won't do that.
Instead, the United States government should have continued the policies and values that led to Next Gen, ERAM, STARS, and AAS.