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FAA NOTAM System Outage

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Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#71

The NOTAM system is embarrassing. This just tops it off. Actually, our whole ATC system and the way the FAA operates is embarrassing. It all works kind of like waste management in NYC. If they were to add new tech and efficiency, fewer people would have jobs, so we keep doing it the old way to the detriment of everyone else.

Shirley you must be joking.

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#73

Gonna be a bad day for those sys admins

Kinda wondering the odds of there being one crying into their coffee over a stack of memos saying they should do something before it fails, or some greybeard angrily pointing to their quality control concerns on a new system. Both are pretty common with federal IT.

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#75
post #58

Edit 2 - * Ground stop Lifted * Update from FAA: >Update 5: Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted. >We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem https://mobile.twitter.com/FAANews/status/161317140080139468... --- Edit - Update from FA…

Looks like they published some kind of a "master NOTAM" now with all important information to restart as soon as possible. https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=31&adv_dat...

That's a routine ATCSCC.

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#76
post #49
post #14

I really like the advisory page -- all info, no sugar.

https://lite.cnn.com/en It's the best way to get the news. No filler, no adds and it works on a 2g mobile.

Not sure CNN is the "best" way to get the news.

Try this: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

No ads, no adds, no filler, no filters.

Make the news objective again. Repeal Smith-Mundt.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#79
post #47

Why do all aviation IT systems feel like they are so fragile? It feels like not a single month can pass these days without some "Airline X has major outage and ruins tons of people's days!" story on the news. What is the tech behind these frail systems?

Airlines view technology as a cost center.

Re: FAA NOTAM System Outage

#80

The NOTAM system is embarrassing. This just tops it off. Actually, our whole ATC system and the way the FAA operates is embarrassing. It all works kind of like waste management in NYC. If they were to add new tech and efficiency, fewer people would have jobs, so we keep doing it the old way to the detriment of everyone else.

Shirley you must be joking.

Rumack : I won't deceive you, Mr. Striker. We're running out of time.

Ted Striker : Surely there must be something you can do.

Rumack : I'm doing everything I can... and stop calling me Shirley!

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