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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by driverdan on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#50395528)
The politically grandstanding is gross. From what I can tell E-IDS has been in development since at least 2020 with a planned rollout starting in 2025.

Unfortunately web search has gotten so bad that it's hard to find past information about it.

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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by joe_the_user on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:17PM (#50398658)
Yeah, AI has become the only source of information that once could be gotten with Google. For example, this FAA document: https://www.faa.gov/media/70881 which I found through chat gpt. When this well is poisoned too, not sure where things are going.
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