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in unrelated news - https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/23/solarwinds-hackers-targete... ;) /humor
Next time my server is down I'll blame the Russians and Chinese too.
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What embarrasses you about it, esp compared with more modern systems? This seems like the kind of critical infrastructure whose uptime requirements can make upgrading challenging once in place.
Others have said it better. If you google 'notams are broken', numerous results will show up explaining various problems with the NOTAM system. Edit: Here's a good one - https://fixingnotams.org/ending-notam-nonsense-in-the-digita... A general inefficiency example using two airpots I often have in mind: IAH and JFK. In IAH, traffic is spaced out in cruise well before the arrival begins, where they're burning much les…
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?
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They are also for notifying pilots of potential caution areas. I used to operate a 550+ meter tower and when I had a tower light out, I had to file a NOTAM.
(Holy cow, just did remedial maths: 550m is a Large Number! Would like to know more details.)
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Your belief isn't evidence, and you shouldn't present it as such.
A vague statement from the FAA isn't evidence either, just like a statement from the CDC not to buy masks isn't evidence they don't work to protect against a virus. And I'm not claiming I have any evidence other than publicly observable patterns relating to both technical glitches and government transparency. I'm speculating, based on the fact that technical glitches usually occur more than once every 21 years (or ev…
Prove these are facts.
The reason I don't respect your opinion is because you don't know the difference between an opinion and facts and i don't like people like you lying on Hacker News.
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All hyper optimized systems become fragile until they collapse. The NOTAM system is ridiculous, no surprise it collapsed ... you can lose your ticket for flying thru a MOA that went active AFTER you took off. What could possibly go wrong with a "push" notification system for every tiny little detail of aerospace scheduling? No force is as destructive as the good idea fairy.
MOAs aren’t the same as restricted areas. You can fly in them if you want.
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100%. As a GA pilot who mostly flies under IFR, the NOTAM system is borderline useless to me. For every warning about an approach being altered or a runway closed, there are 100s of "birds invof airport" or "unlit crane 50' AGL 5 miles from the field" NOTAMs. And even for the relevant NOTAMs, Foreflight will highlight them for approaches etc and ATC won't send you to a closed runway or taxiway.
Seems like it's the sort of thing that's borderline useless right up until the moment it's absolutely essential. Like the smoke alarms in my house, which are actually wired up to mains so don't technically need a battery, but they still have to have a battery in them and will give high pitched chirps ever few minutes when the battery is dead. And since there's so many in the house, and the chirp only comes every few…
NOTAMs are full of pages and pages of goop — inconsistent, impossible to accurately filter, hard to read, at times unclear, and mostly noise.
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Nit: it's just "Ukraine" not "the Ukraine." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
Double nit: this was not a misuse the deprecated term "The Ukraine" but the correct use of 'the' attaching to "Ukrainian one" referring to the NOTAM basically telling everyone to remain clear of Ukrainian airspace.
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Nit: it's just "Ukraine" not "the Ukraine." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
Try replacing it in the sentence - it doesn't work, "the" is modifying "one" not Ukraine. I suppose it could have been written "the Ukrainian one" but the the would still be there.