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Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#31
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As of 06:24 US Eastern the appears to no longer be true. There is a NOTAM outage but no full ground stop is mentioned, just a few specific due to weather. Edit: obviously a developing situation, see responses to this comment for current advisories.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-sa...

Clearly still developing; we'll see.

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#32

Are 2020s the years where the cold war is back as a lukewarm war, and also all of NA aviation needs to reconvene with its decrepit software? Next plot-twist, it was all ready to blow, but ultimately triggered by Russian/Chinese/North Korean hackers. Ok, taking off my tinfoil hat. Still, maybe I'm suffering of nostalgia bias but the last few years really make for a lot of prime source material for docudramas.

Forensic analysis will reveal that there were multiple hidden failures over the past years that were covered up by foreign hackers to ensure their backdoors were not revealed in an in-depth investigation.

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Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#33

Are 2020s the years where the cold war is back as a lukewarm war, and also all of NA aviation needs to reconvene with its decrepit software? Next plot-twist, it was all ready to blow, but ultimately triggered by Russian/Chinese/North Korean hackers. Ok, taking off my tinfoil hat. Still, maybe I'm suffering of nostalgia bias but the last few years really make for a lot of prime source material for docudramas.

don't forget about this beauty

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/23/solarwinds-hackers-targete...

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

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post #2

As of 06:24 US Eastern the appears to no longer be true. There is a NOTAM outage but no full ground stop is mentioned, just a few specific due to weather. Edit: obviously a developing situation, see responses to this comment for current advisories.

I don't know how these things work, but the most recent advisory, 027, seems to imply that United Airlines has a full ground stop until 15:00 UTC / 10:00 Eastern.

Edit: Of course as I was typing that, Advisory 028 pops up with a nationwide ground stop until 9:30 Eastern: "GROUND STOP ALL FLIGHTS / ALL DESTINATIONS EXCLUDES MILITARY AC AND MEDEVAC FLIGHTS"

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=28&adv_dat...

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#38
There's a ground stop for all flights now.

GROUND STOP ALL FLIGHTS / ALL DESTINATIONS EXCLUDES MILITARY AC AND MEDEVAC FLIGHTS DESTINATION AIRPORT; ALL FACILITIES INCLUDED: ALL GROUND STOP PERIOD: UNTIL 1430Z REASON: EQUIPMENT OUTAGE REMARKS: US NOTAMS SYSTEM DOWN

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#40
post #37

ATC can tell pilots what they need to know, right?

NOTAM notices are not only for planes but for other people and equipment using airspace, like drones, skydivers, ... Those are not always connected with ATC, but need the information from NOTAM to plan their activities
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