Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
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Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
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Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#2It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work
sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer.
After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the interrupts at the same time?
Everything in the whole stack has to be verified. Thats means no virutalisation, no ruby, no perl, no python no ethernet. You can have firewire 400 though.
One can almost guarantee that this plane crash did not crash because of a failure in ATCPilot communication.
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#3I cannot believe I am doing this, but .... how about a few paragraph breaks once in a while?
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#4I'm sure I saw a documentary a few years back where an aeroplane engine manufacturer had a control centre. The sole purpose of this place was to track minute engine attributes in real time, and alert their clients of future maintenance. Is that just on the latest planes?
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#5It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer. After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the i…
True. You can't argue about the lack of GPS trackers, though. Every shipping container has one nowadays.
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#6It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer. After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the i…
That's all fine, but the points he makes remain very valid, GPS tracking and weather info being the most valid. No-one knows why the plane went down, but arguing that technology advances can't make planes safer isn't true by the looks of the article. The fact that the security aspects of computer systems to help pilots is hard does not mean it can't be attempted successfully, the points made about drones ring true on this.
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#7It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer. After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the i…
actually, HF radios with digital, encrypted & authenticated communication work
GPS works, too
internet safe for business fliers but not the pilot? please. it doesnt mean the whole plane relies on internet.
those 3 should probably be added to current planes, regardless.
i'm not sure why you think there is a single system with a "CPU" in a plane either. there's multiple independent systems - some electronic, some analog.
all this not much to do with visualization or python, in fact... and software glitches in planes do happen, by the way.
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#8So having internet would somehow magically solve all the problems. Also it doesn't seem to be written out clearly, but there seems to be the implied assumption that Air France Flight 447 had no GPS tracker. Which is false. It did have, and automatically reported it's position at certain intervals.
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#9It may be stuck in the 60's but HF radios work sure you can create an automated dispatch system on an iPad. How do you authenticate it? how do you tell if its not working? does it fail safe? Making safe software is hard, and well beyond the wit of your standard programmer. After all, can you gaurentee your software when the CPU is at 100%? can you say with certainty what happens when your CPU is hammered by all the i…
True. You can't argue about the lack of GPS trackers, though. Every shipping container has one nowadays.
Reading GPS is cheap and easy. Sending information back is not.
Those shipping container trackers use GSM to call home. They're cell phones. What happens when that container is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?
Re: Aviation is stuck in the 60s – a reflection on MH 370
#10Interesting ideas. Just a quick note about the layout of the blog text: font and line spacing are too small and the text column is too wide. The combination makes it a little hard to read. Plus points on not having grey text on grey background though.