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> In the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, FAA officials decided to shut down and reboot the main NOTAM system -- a significant decision, because the reboot can take about 90 minutes, according to the source. 90 minutes; this certainly appears to be an advertisement about Windows OS.
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I will always elect to be stuck on an Amtrak than stuck on a plane or in an airport. I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.
What is stopping you from doing that in an airport?
Quote from FAA: "Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file." UK news source The Independent is reporting that Nav Canada's NOTAM system also suffered an issue.[1] Speculation: corrupting input, either international or North American? E.G. UTF-8, SQL escape, CSV quoting. edit: Better reporting of Canada's issue from Canada's CBC (and frankly, better reporting about the US, too). [2] "In Can…
> In the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, FAA officials decided to shut down and reboot the main NOTAM system -- a significant decision, because the reboot can take about 90 minutes, according to the source. 90 minutes; this certainly appears to be an advertisement about Windows OS.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will always elect to be stuck on an Amtrak than stuck on a plane or in an airport. I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.
What is stopping you from doing that in an airport?
I wish to know what kind of system NOTAM runs on. An IBM 360 with tape backup?
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/swim/users_forum/...
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2021-10/NOTAM%20Mod%...
So probably Linux, though perhaps something else.
I wonder if the corruption could have been caused by a cosmic ray bit flip. It would be funny to think that one single tiny subatomic particle knocked down our entire flight system.
Cosmic rays are a cop out but a good plot device. They're so rare, but one could write a bit flip into a script for a novel or a tv show as the solution to any computer mystery.
I wonder if the corruption could have been caused by a cosmic ray bit flip. It would be funny to think that one single tiny subatomic particle knocked down our entire flight system.
Cosmic rays are a cop out but a good plot device. They're so rare, but one could write a bit flip into a script for a novel or a tv show as the solution to any computer mystery.
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What is stopping you from doing that in an airport?
Can't take knitting needles past TSA.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
Final decision vests with the TSA agent at the desk.
But there are needles which are short metal/plastic parts, with a long flexible back (eg for circular knitting) which are very unlikely to cause an issue: the point is smaller than a pen.
On a positive note, you could have been on Amtrak: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/amtrak-delayed-va-fl.h...
I will always elect to be stuck on an Amtrak than stuck on a plane or in an airport. I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.