FAA announces new air traffic control system in hope of taming busy skies

[Crepitus]

The Federal Aviation Administration will embark on an ambitious three-year plan to modernize America's air traffic control systems and phase out the "outdated technologies that are unable to meet" modern demands, officials said Thursday.

The federal government has been under pressure to address mounting traveler concerns in the wake of fatal crashes, ongoing delays and an embarrassing recent revelation that the airspace controllers for Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey lost all contact with pilots last week after a failure of the copper wiring that transmits radar data from New York to Philadelphia TRACON.
Question: Why was all this crap working before trump came along?
Answer: Because he fired all the people who knew how to maintain the equipment.
Question: Why did trump omit the fact the elon is getting the contract to do all this?
Answer: I don't think you need me to tell you.
Question: Why do we need "all the money up front"?
Answer: sounds like grift/scam to me.

FAA announces new air traffic control system in hope of taming busy skies

The current ATC system "is based on an outdated technologies that are unable to meet" modern demands, an administration statement said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[shockedcanadian]

Yes I did see that announcement. Some of these legacy systems surely have issues, though I will say that they probably offer less fisk.of hacking due to the older programming language used. Old colbol and other such languages are not in heavy use and very low level languages with far fewer hackers.in circulation. I dont know enough to say for certain just a thought.

 

[g5000]

Soooo...I should not fly for the next three years, I guess.

 

[theHawk]

Question: Why was all this crap working before trump came along?

There are air traffic accidents all the time. The numbers have not gone up since President Trump took office, despite your propagandists saying otherwise.

 

[theHawk]

Question: Why do we need "all the money up front"?

Typically that’s how you purchase tech projects in the government….with money from your budget.


Are you against upgrading the ancient systems they are using?

 

[todd down under]

There are air traffic accidents all the time. The numbers have not gone up since President Trump took office, despite your propagandists saying otherwise.


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This chart deserves a bump. Let's see the OP answer it. Guessing the marxist media just driving home these stories.

 

[theHawk]

This chart deserves a bump. Let's see the OP answer it. Guessing the marxist media just driving home these stories.

They won’t address it. The facts destroy their idiotic narrative.

Statistics are fascist I guess.

 

[whitehall]

Why wasn't there a single ambitious plan during the Biden administration?